====== Welcome to BlabberNet ======
BlabberNet is a communications network with a long history.  It was founded in 1999 as a South Africa centric IRC network providing real time text chat facilities to many individuals and companies.  As of 2010 the network's aim is to research and provide more modern communications services using [[http://xmpp.org/|XMPP]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol|SIP]], in addition to updating the IRC infrastructure.



====== News ======

  * Atheme Services upgraded to 6.0.4. [2011-03-06]
  * All IRCDs upgraded to InspIRCD 2.0.3. [2011-03-06]
  * **wander.blabber.net** passes stability tests. [2011-02-22]
  * **gravity.blabber.net** passes stability tests. [2011-02-07]
  * Netherlands based **gravity.blabber.net** now in testing. [2010-12-19]
  * Germany based **gravity.blabber.net** failed stability tests - server terminated. [2010-12-18]
  * New IRC server: **gravity.blabber.net**.  Based in Germany, low latency for European chatters.  Still under testing. [2010-09-07]
  * GeoDNS enabled on **irc.blabber.net**.  Connecting to **irc.blabber.net** will send you to the geographically nearest server to you. [2010-07-05] 
  *[[IRC:NetworkUpgrade2010|IRC network upgrade]] [2010-06-27]