Hi, it's maybe better if you read some articles about SMS, SMSCs and GSM-networks in general (e.g. wikipedia or gsm-spec). Your questions are very much offtopic from kannel.
Regards Falko 2008/7/8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi and thanks for the reply. > >> Iam not sure about the PSTN thing. But u can use SMPP (short message peer to >> peer) over kannel. it basically use TCP/IP conneciton to ur SMPP providers >> network (SMSC) and from there u can route ur sms's. kannel supports SMPP >> v.3.3 and v.3.4 >> >> KANNEL G/w-----tcp/ip-------> SMPP provider---->other SMSC's > > So the first part of this I am to understand is that no one can really do > this on their own, if you want to reach cell phones of a commercial network, > you need to use a provider which can talk with that network, right? In other > words, you can't be the provider unless you want to get into the phone > business. > > The second thing is, which is more advantageous? Using a GSM modem or SMPP > provider? > Or perhaps a combination of both to do least cost routing? > > If using GSM modem, I would guess that I would need as many modems as I feel > there would be simultaneous users, is this correct? > If using SMPP, it's just over TCP/IP so nothing special, just access to the > Internet. Also, if SMPP is peer-to-peer, does this mean you are relying on > peers being in the areas that you think you will be communicating with? If > so, then a GSM provider is wider coverage range? > > I don't know how many users we might have, we have some 2000+ customers but > we don't know how many will want to use these SMS services yet. > >>Are u referring to Fixed line sms's ? iam not very sure about kannel. but >>Asterisks suppport fixed line sms's > > I'm not sure, this is all new to me. I've started reading about SMS > yesterday. I know that trixbox has SMS capability but so far, people seem to > say avoid it, it's too rudimentary. > > Mike > >>>I thought I read somewhere that kannel can use several different methods to >>>send/receive SMS messages including GSM modems but also, something about >>>doing it over the PSTN and/or TCP/IP? > >>>Can anyone shed some light on this? > > >
