>1. How are you transmitting your SMSs? Currently, a number of different gateways are being used: 2 provide a SOAP web service interface, 1 other provides a REST based web service.
A transaction using the SOAP web services takes 3-5 seconds to complete (from the point of calling the method to receive an error\success confirmation) The REST web service transaction takes 1 second or less to complete. > 2. If you disable the actual transmission, how many SMSs can your >application generate per second? Currently, the content is generated and a number of SMS per user are generated. I'll have to measure this more accurately but a cursory glance indicated that we're generting approximately 1000 sms per second. (I'm sure this can't be right.. the parser\generator should be faster than that:) Additionally, I've just confirmed that the gateway's we use can pump out 20-100 sms's per second. This is currently too slow and we'll probably get direct access to the mobile operator's SMSC which provides larger throughput -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
