network . seven networks inc. industry mobile software founded 2000 headquarters san carlos california products list ping push notifications open channel mobile messaging website seven.com seven networks inc. is a privately funded american corporation founded in 2000 with headquarters in san carlos california . the company has research and development centers in california and finland . it had about 265 employees in 2010 . 1 seven mobile messaging products are turnkey multi device multi service computer software for operators and device manufacturers . the company claims its products have a desktop like experience for core messaging applications like email instant messagings and social networking . contents 1 history 2 open channel 3 mobile messaging 4 partners 5 competition 6 references 7 external links history edit the company was formerly known as leap corporation and changed its name to seven networks inc. in december 2000 . 2 in 2004 the company was selected for fiercewireless list of 15 promising and innovative wireless startups of the year . 3 by 2005 ceo bill nguyen had left to start another company . 4 in 2006 the company announced sprint as a customer . 5 since then the company expanded its products to support email services added mobile instant messaging applications analytics and social networking . in 2010 the company announced it was selected by samsung electronics to provide push technology for samsung social hub a social networking and integrated messaging service available on several of the company s handsets . 6 in january 2010 the company claimed in a press release to have more than eight million accounts actively synchronized on mobile devices using its software . 1 7 in early 2011 the company announced verizon wireless as a customer 8 and also announced open channel . 9 in 2012 the company announced a combined email instant messaging and social media product ping . 10 open channel edit the open channel software product line focuses on mobile traffic management and optimization . there are open channel products for wireless signaling optimization carrier network policy enforcement and mobile data offloading . 11 open channel was launched in february 2011 to help carriers manage the impact of push technology for message notifications on their networks . it works by monitoring all requests for data from smartphone applications such as facebook email twitter which make up to hundreds of requests per hour with only a small fraction of them actually returning data . 12 the platform acts as a buffer in the network determining when content for a particular app is available and then allowing the phone to get that content . 13 early tests estimated mobile devices might reduce their time on a network by up to 40 percent and mobile traffic by up to 70 percent while boosting battery life by up to 25 percent . 14 open channel is transparent to connected applications and requires no changes or special integration by mobile developers . additionally it does not require changes to the network and can work in conjunction with new standards for fast network dormancy smart signaling and other network optimizations . 15 in february 2011 open channel received the gsma global mobile award for best mobile technology breakthrough in 2011 . 16 in february 2013 open channel added offerings for policy enforcement and offloading . 17 also in early 2013 toronto based wireless operator public mobile selected open channel to manage network signaling and help reduce service costs stemming from non optimized mobile applications and unnecessary data traffic that was creating excess network congestion . 11 in september 2015 open channel was made available directly to consumers . 18 mobile messaging edit the system seven software allows consumers and enterprises to access information such as business and personal email calendar corporate directories personal contacts and documents as well as allows users to deliver mobile data applications and services to a portfolio of devices . 19 seven s push notification platform system seven is deployed as a saas software as a service solution . seven mobile email 20 and seven mobile im 21 are seven s own applications built on top of its push platform and its ping services 22 allow operators and device manufacturers to use the seven push notification technology for messaging services and mobile applications . they provide mobile operators and device manufacturers with a solution for integrated messaging services . system seven mobile email is a server assisted solution where access to user s email account appears to originate from ip addresses hosted by seven 208.87.200.0 208.87.207.255 23 or its customers . although done with user s permission email service providers may flag these as potential hacking attempts and have raised security concerns 24 most recently with microsoft outlook for android and ios 25 partners edit the firm works with mobile platform providers device manufacturers email messaging solutions and providers of services in the cloud and infrastructure partners to sell mobile messaging services . its systems use commonly deployed mobile platforms including android 26 bada brew 27 j2me 28 symbian and windows mobile . 29 they work on products from device manufacturers including htc inq lg motorola nokia sanyo samsung and sony ericsson ; and are embedded on more than 550 device types . 30 the firm has partnered with many of the top internet service providers including google microsoft exchange and windows live and yahoo 31 and infrastructure providers such as equinix 32 savvis and oracle . competition edit apple push notification service apns google cloud messaging good technology gos networks nokia messaging opennet research in motion rim blackberry outlook mobile references edit a b monica alleven december 14 2010 . 2 straight out of 10 for seven . wireless week . retrieved june 14 2013 . company overview of seven networks inc. . 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20 may 2010 astricon retrieved 20 may 2010 csnet retrieved 20 may 2010 gomobi retrieved 20 may 2010 seven retrieved 20 may 2010 seven blog retrieved 31 aug 2015 . equinix retrieved 17 march 2011 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seven networks & oldid 720709267 categories mobile technologycompanies based in redwood city californiasoftware companies based in californiaprivately held companies based in californiacompanies established in 2000 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as 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