September 13, 2006, 18:04
LavaNet Instant Messenging service?
When Google launched their Google Talk instant messenger, probably the best thing that they did was that they used the Jabber protocol.
It also meant that they saved countless engineering time and dollars in NOT creating their own proprietary instant messenging protocol. And if you don't like the official Google Talk client, you can use any Jabber client that takes your fancy.
Internally at LavaNet, we've implemented and use heavily our own Jabber server using Free software. There are many benefits of this such as: being able to create and administer our own chat rooms for our work departments; turning off logging of conversations and
Previously, we had been heavy uses of AOL's AIM service.
A real crappy situation as AIM is not encrypted and AOL is the type of company which likes to log your usage and post it on the internet.
Something that we at LavaNet could do is offer a LavaNet Instant Messenging service to the public. I doubt the larger ISP's on the island would bother looking into such a service. They have other things to worry about.
As a smaller ISP we can do such things and discuss them with the public. Anyone interested? Any there other services (especially those which can be implemented Freely) that our customers would like to see? Feel free do drop us a line on our Forums.
This is new LavaNet.
