Any idea of when Apple's ActiveSync Implementation will close the gap with what BES does?
Like maybe having Important message notifications? Categories? Filters? I use an iPhone, but mail handling on it is lacking. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mh...@ox.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:44 AM To: 'Jamie Bowden'; 'Joe Abley' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide It's called Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync :) It works with Android, Apple and Microsoft devices. I believe both Lotus and Groupwise have licensed and support it as well. We have a few (but now, very few) blackberry users remaining. They won't let it go until we rip it out of their hands. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Bowden [mailto:ja...@photon.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:36 AM > To: Joe Abley > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide > > You are correct. The BES uses PSKs to talk to RIM's servers, which then > uses them to talk to the devices over the carrier networks. All of this > was in complete failure mode until sometime overnight when it appears to > have all started flowing again. Someday either Google or Apple will get > off their rear ends and roll out an end to end encrypted service that > plugs into corporate email/calendar/workgroup services and we can all > gladly toss these horrid little devices in the recycle bins where they > belong. > > Jamie > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:06 PM > > To: Phil Regnauld > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide > > > > > > On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote: > > > > > Joe Abley (jabley) writes: > > >> > > >> On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote: > > >> > > >>> Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-) > > >> > > >> The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of > > processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the > > core as a simple transport and shift the processing intelligence to > the > > edge have different, less-dramatic failure modes. > > > > > > This is not the case for corporate customers with dedicated > > servers, > > > AFAIU. > > > > I'm no expert, but my understanding is that at some/most/all traffic > > between handhelds and a BES, carried from the handheld device through > a > > cellular network, still flows through RIM. > > > > > > Joe
