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Originally Posted by mudtoe
If I have full uncensored access to the internet with the BIS plan, how would they prevent me from talking to my own copy of software express running on my own server? Does something odd happen out of band when a device "activates" (i.e. is this activation is not transmitted via a regular TCP/IP packet over the internet, but is done somehow through the cellular network) or are they blocking just a single port (i.e. the BES port)? I'm afraid my ignorance about Blackberry technology is showing here.
mudtoe
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OK, you need to try to understand something, because you're missing a very important aspect of this whole BlackBerry thing.
** BlackBerry Data uses RIM's Network... not the Internet. **
Your BlackBerry Server connects to RIM's NOC via SRP on port 3101 TCP.
Your BlackBerry Device connects to RIM's Network by means of your wireless carrier's data network.
Your BlackBerry Device does not talk directly to your BlackBerry Server over the Internet.
All BlackBerry Data traffic is transmitted over RIM's network.
In an oversimplified nutshell:
Device <--> Wireless Carrier <--> RIM BlackBerry Infrastructure <--> RIM Noc <--> BlackBerry Server <--> Messaging Platform.