Hello Engel, 50K is nothing as amount per month.
You may use even small Linux box with Xeon at 450 MHz :) Dont know about the bandwidth, I use here 10 Mb international without an issue. There are lot of bulk SMS aggregators on the market. I have personal experience with Clickatell and InfoBip. All you need is to estimate the high loads. For example if you send 50 K once at a time, your HTTP server will be flooded down. For bulk SMS use sqlbox, its has been created for that. nice feature at sqlbox is to use one table for all MO MT DLR traffic. Cheers Engel L wrote: > > Hi, > > A company I work for provides System Support Services. We are looking > to SMS-enable some systems we support. Having played around with > Kannel before, I think we may be able to use it for this purpose. The > set-up I foresee is a dedicated server running Kannel, and a number of > front end applications (mostly web based) and scripts communicating > with the gateway. To begin with, we will be sending strictly MT > messages (one way). Our monthly volume estimates are 50,000 messages > in the first year. > > I have a number of questions especially for people who have used > Kannel in production. > > 1. I want a general feel of the hardware requirements that would work > for our scenario. I was thinking we start with a leased dedicated > server, with 2 NIC cards, one for communication with the SMS service > provider via SMPP and one for our apps (HTTP). We have internal > Ubuntu expertise so we will most likely run Kannel on a Ubuntu server. > > 2. Bandwidth requirements: If we are to lease a server, or opt for > co-location, how much bandwidth should we pay for from the co-location > service provider? We intend to enable DLR feature. I believe the > traffic would be only SMPP messages including DLR and HTTP requests > and responses. > > 3. What are your experiences with Bulk SMS service providers? We plan > to go the operator route in the future but it appears our volumes may > not be big enough to get direct connections to their SMSCs. Which > provider are you using and how would you rate their service? > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Kind Regards, > > Engel Linus >
