[VoiceOps] SMS enabled DIDs

[Eric Hiller]

So any idea what Syniverse or Verisign charges to act as your gateway
provider? High monthly commits?

-Eric

On Tue, April 26, 2011 9:19 pm, Scott Berkman wrote:
> I don't believe it's that "simple".
>
> The main issue is that SMS messages were originally hacked into the GSM
> standard, not a SS7 protocol.  While SMS can be carried over SS7, most
> wireless networks, at least traditionally, did not follow standard SS7 and
> PSTN concepts in their implementation of SMS, so they are basically
> separate
> systems not really connected to the PSTN.
>
> As I understand it, most of the interconnections between different
> networks
> that carry SMS are done through gateway providers or private peering.
> Verisign was the most popular and/or well known for some time:
>
> http://www.verisign.com/static/005168.pdf
>
> This is also part of why it took so long to start having inter-carrier
> MMS.
>
> Of course the other problem is at "layer 8", so using a well-established
> gateway is the best way to ensure you have connectivity to all the players
> without building your own legal team.
>
> Nowadays, many of the SMS gateway companies offer all types of
> connectivity
> including SS7 or SIGTRAN, SOAP, SMTP, and a bunch of proprietary
> protocols.
>
> There are also some good open source projects for running your own SMSC:
>
> http://www.kannel.org/news.shtml
>
> 	-Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org]
> On Behalf Of Paul Timmins
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:01 AM
> To: Eric Hiller
> Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SMS enabled DIDs
>
> On 04/26/2011 10:50 AM, Eric Hiller wrote:
>> We are a CLEC and have SS7 trunks. From my limited understanding, SMS
>> rides over ISUP, so in theory we would simply have an entry in an SMS
>> DB that says all our SMS messages should be sent to a particular point
>> code correct? Do I have this at all right, and if so, how do I enter
>> this SMS DB point code information?
>>
>
> I've been thinking this myself for some time, and there's a place to input
> this information in NPAC LTI. I assume you'd also need an SMSC to receive
> the SMS data, and you'd have to get all the wireless carriers to open up
> your point code in all their STPs. I presume there's a way to get that
> information broadcast to all of them.
>
> -Paul
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