On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Joe Abley (jabley) writes: >> >> On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote: >> >>> Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-) >> >> The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of processing >> intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the core as a simple >> transport and shift the processing intelligence to the edge have different, >> less-dramatic failure modes. > > This is not the case for corporate customers with dedicated servers, > AFAIU.
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that at some/most/all traffic between handhelds and a BES, carried from the handheld device through a cellular network, still flows through RIM. Joe