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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of riza theresa batista
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:21 PM
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Subject: questions on multimedia messaging
Greetings!
We are a group of students who are presently working on our undergraduate
thesis which involves processing images which come with multimedia messages.
This is our planned implementation: a multimedia message which contains an
image will be sent directly to a server (which retrieves and then processes the
image); the server will then send back another multimedia message to the mobile
phone which sent the original image. (Please take note that we wanted the
multimedia message to be sent straight to the server, which means that another
mobile phone connected to the server via a data cable is not a
consideration...).
Here are our questions:
Through the utilization of kannel, is it possible for the server to be able to
directly receive/send multimedia messages from/to MMS-capable mobile phones?
Yes, it is very much possible to use Kannel to do the activities as mentioned. However I think you may need to have support from MMSC, Navjot what do you think?
Can MMSC be bypassed, if it
is a direct connection between phone only. I think ideally it should be without
MMSC but Navjot can throw some more light on this.
<adds-navjot>
I don't have any practical experience with MMS but this what i
know.
You can save MMS on the whatever server and whatever way you want. But in
order to send MMS, you need MMSC(virtual/real).
Assuming you are trying Application Originated SMS
Sure, kannel can be used as sending(SI + WAP GET) and receiving
MMS but the point is Kannel is not MMSC. I guess just to download the MMS from
server, you don't need MMSC just the WAP gateway should be
enough.
</adds-navjot>
If not, do you know of a way by which we
can go about our planned
implementation? By the way, we are running Linux Red Hat 9.0
and we have to
make our project open-source.
make our project open-source.
Yes, its good to implement
open source.
Kannel is fully
open source and you can very well install this on Linux Red hat and you may need
mySQL which again is Open source
Regards
Gagan
Chadha
Your help will be greatly appreciated. Hoping for your response.
Thank you very much.
Riza Theresa Batista
University of the Philippines
