"Denver Braughler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Damir Imamovic wrote: > > Denver Braughler wrote: > > > Damir Imamovic wrote: > > > > one process should receive sms messages from cell phones > > > > then store them into the database > > > Does it keep (log) the messages or is it just a queue? > > > > > > > in peak hours like holidays, new year something as 200.000 > > > > messages > > > 60 messages per second of 160 bytes each isn't going > > > to choke Cache'. > > 200.000 messages/second. This is what I wanted to say :-). > > Surely, you didn't. > There won't be that much traffic on any one channel. > Why would anyone route all the SMS messages for one nation across > one server? > For one thing, the network latency would add up. > > > > there are about 700.000 cell phones in the system and until > > now whenever there is holiday or some other event, current > > system fails every time. > > Well, you won't have each one sending a message every 4 seconds. for this I don't know, since for example we are using sms inside company for most communication on the field (phone attached to notebook, then you type and usuali one longer sentence ends up with four messages).
numbers are received from source inside telecom > > I'm more inclined to think that the issue is a centralized > look-up to find out any recipient's current cell. > But I could come up with an algorithm to minimize traffic.
