The THOR^TM platform has been deployed in many “basic voicemail”, “unified messaging” and “next generation voicemail” configurations, including multi-site, multi-million-users installations. The open, standard based architecture supports all state-of-the-art requirements on a modern messaging system, including multiple notification options, instant on-demand temporary mailboxes, etc. All THOR^TM services operate with a standard multimedia message store (in many cases, the carrier’s existing email store), making it simple to work across media boundaries.

In the following, only incremental video components of an advanced multimedia messaging service are described.