Openwave Systems Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software, applications and services that enable the convergence of the Internet and wireless and wireline communications. The Company's Openwave Services OS (operating system) software suite enables telecommunication companies and wireless service providers to create and deploy new revenue-generating services, while providing their subscribers with a rich personalized experience. The Openwave Services OS software suite is designed to provide carrier-class scalability and reliability, and work with industry standards such as WAP (wireless application protocol), XHTML (extensible hypertext markup language), SyncML (synchronized markup language) and VoiceXML (voice extensible markup language). In July 2002, the Company acquired SignalSoft Corporation, a company engaged in software applications for both commercial and emergency (E911) location-based services.