> -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >
> Forgive my ignorance, but how far of a difference is > there comparing Kannel Gateway to an SMSC? It seems to > perform the same function, what is kannel lack of to > be an SMSC? A direct connection with the GSM network. an SMSC is an interface between known (or propriety) communication protocols and the GSM (or other type of) network, while Kannel - which is an SMS (or WAP) gateway) is an interface bettween said known communication protocols and applications. this setup is what known in the hype as "multi-tiered", in which you have several layers, each does what it do best and leaves the rest of the work for other specialized components. we like it that way as it makes creating and maintained very large systems possible by spliting them to smaller, managable, sections. In several situations this distinction between an SMSC and an SMS gateway is not that prevalent, in which case Kannel can be viewed as a common interface wrapper around different interfaces and protocols, and its use is required if you don't want your application to have to learn to speak with all kinds of weird protocols, making it so much more complicated. -- Oded Arbel m-Wise mobile solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-9-9581711 +972-67-340014 ::.. A Fortran compiler is the hobgoblin of little minis.
