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Meet the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
What is XMPP ?
XMPP is most generally used in forthright message interaction between two points,checking the user status, sharing the status details with the server. It also takes care of server status record keeping, subscription management, contact list updates, and blockading certain users
Who users xmpp
IM
- ~2 billion WhatsApp WhatApp uses a variation of XMPP for its popular chat service
- ~300 million Kik Messenger Kik Messenger uses a variation of XMPP for its popular chat service.
- ~200 million Zoom Zoom uses XMPP (with some proprietary extensions) for its chat functionality.
- ~20 million Jitsi Jitsi is a free and open source project that enables video-conferences. It uses XMPP for its chat functionality.
- ~6.5 million Moya App A chat app and social communication platform mainly used in South Africa.
- ~4 million Grindr Grindr is a geosocial networking and online dating application that uses XMPP for its chat application.
- ~350,000 Mailfence Mailfence uses XMPP for its group chat functionality.
- ~10,000 Kontalk A free and open source XMPP service that uses your phone number as the user ID.
- ~2,000 MOKA An app for the German Federal Police’s Android devices and a desktop app used as a communication tool by the members of the control centre.
Gaming
- ~34 million Nintendo Switch The Nintendo Switch video game console uses the Ejabberd XMPP server for push notifications. 2019
- ~1 million EVE Online EVE Online has switched to XMPP for the in-game chat backend 2018
- ~250 million Fortnite A cooperative survival game using XMPP for presence, push, whispers and group chat 2017
- ~16 million Neverwinter Neverwinter is a free-to-play, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game using XMPP for chat, presence, group chat 2013
- ~40 million Origin Origin is an online gaming and game distribution platform. XMPP is used internally for the buddy and chat system. 2011
- ~900k Star Trek Online A free-to-play sci-fi MMORPG game based on Star Trek using XMPP for chat, presence, group chat 2010
- ~345k Champions Online Champions Online is a free-to-play superhero MMORPG based on the Champions role-playing game using XMPP for chat, presence, group chat 2010
- ~27 million League of Legends One of the largest online video games using XMPP for chat and game invitations. 2009
IOT
- in the range of millions Google Cloud Print A cloud solution by Google to process documents to printers without the need to install drivers. 2010
- in the range of billions Firebase Cloud Messaging Cross-platform notification and message service (formerly Google Cloud Messaging) 2014
- in the range of millions Logitech Harmony Hub System for home automation and media remote control 2004
- not unkonw GitHub repository IoT reference implementation for ESP32 microcontroller (B.Sc. Thesis). 2019
Social
- ~1.5 billion Google Push Notifications Google provides an XMPP Interface (Link via WaybackMachine) to their push notification service. It’s also been rumoured that push notifications are delivered to the device via a proprietary binary XMPP protocol.
- ~500 million Apple Push Notifications Apple uses XMPP to deliver push notifications to client devices.
Where does XMPP falls under in OSI Model
XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a communication protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML. In the OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection model), XMPP operates at the application layer (Layer 7). It is designed for real-time communication, such as instant messaging, presence information, and contact list maintenance.
- BOSH is tcp extension which allows XMPP connections over HTTP. BOSH operates at the application layer (Layer 7) of the OSI model.
- WebSocket is a communication protocol that provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection In the OSI model, WebSocket operates at the application layer (Layer 7) as well
- TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is one of the main protocols in the transport layer (Layer 4) of the OSI model.