Architecture: BlackBerry Pushcast Software installations

The BlackBerry® Pushcast™ Software provides a highly secure hosted installation for organizations. The BlackBerry Pushcast Software uses security services to manage and maintain the information that the BlackBerry Pushcast servers store in a hosted environment.

Component

Description

BlackBerry® Enterprise Server

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server encrypts and compresses application data that BlackBerry devices receive and decompresses and decrypts application data that devices send.

BlackBerry MDS Connection Service

The BlackBerry MDS Connection Service is a BlackBerry Enterprise Server component that exists in an organization's network behind a firewall. The BlackBerry MDS Connection Service is designed to provide BlackBerry Pushcast Player users with highly secure access to their organization's intranet and the Internet. The BlackBerry MDS Connection Service makes requests to the BlackBerry Pushcast server to access content.

BlackBerry Pushcast Software

The BlackBerry Pushcast Software permits authors to create content and send it to BlackBerry Pushcast Software users.

The mobile initiator service is a BlackBerry Pushcast Software component that sends encrypted email messages to devices. The email messages contain information that devices use when BlackBerry device users download new content or delete existing content.

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