Unlike unified communication (UC) vendors’ IM gateway servers, which only offer one-to-one chat federation, the NextPlane Federation Server is focused on hi-fidelity and multi-media federation across UC platforms.
In 2011 NextPlane plans to add video federation capabilities.
The comparison chart below illustrates some of the ways in which the NextPlane solution helps organizations solve problems that UC gateways cannot address.
| Feature | NextPlane | UC Gateways |
| 1:1 chat and presence | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-party (n-way) chat | Yes | No |
| Rich presence support | Yes | No |
| Custom presence states | Yes | No |
| Custom Disclaimer Messages | Yes | No |
| Rich client support for multi-party chat | Yes | No |
| Domain Sharing (Intra-domain federation) | Yes | No |
| Single Domain routing | Yes | No |
| Multi-Aliasing | Yes | No |
| Policy enforcement | Yes | No |
| Presence Obfuscation | Yes | No |
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