Great! This makes more sense now. Case 1 would not be a cost
effective solution for starting up. Once we have more traffic and
start building more SMS-enabled applications for clients, we could look
at Case 1, right?
Case 2 would be cheaper than Case 3, although our selection of
networks would be limited to Case 2's one provider, whereas Case 3 may
be a little more expensive, but they would offer more networks.
TynTec does not offer all of the same networks that Clickatel
offers, but Clickatel is their client. Is this because TynTec is just
ONE SMSC, and Clickatel connects to various SMSC's, allowing them to
offer more networks (Case 3) ?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeetendra Singh
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:48:20 +0530
To: Baden de Bari
Subject: Re: [Kannel-Users] SMS newbie
First of all, for the
clarification, please note that Kannel is not a SMS server but its a
SMS gateway which inter-connects a SMS client to a SMS server (e.g.
SMSC of GSM networks).
Now as regards the TynTec or clickatel or Mobileway or
mobliss or mblox or other such
companies which are involved in SMS business, they are not exactly SMSC
(of GSM network). These are all "SMS Gateway operators". What I mean is
that these firms may themselves be using their SMS gateways to connect
to a real SMSC (of a GSM network operator) or may be connecting to
another SMS Gateway operator. I hope you get the picture...the entire
link may look like below...
Case 1.&nbs p; End Client(like yourself) --> SMSC
You require a SMS gateway at your end for this to happen. You may use
Kannel for this. In this case, you establish a direct connection with
SMSC for SMS termination. The only problem is that either the SMSC's
GSM network operator may not be able to cater to your destination
network or your interface towards the SMSC may not be the one available
at your SMS gateway (for ex: it may allow SMTP/HTTP or file based
interface whereas if you use Kannel, it can only support a standard
UCP/CIMD2/SMPP/SEMA or predefiend HTTP interface only). And also the
fact that this is normally a costly affair.
Case 2. End Client (Like yourself) --> SMS interconnect GW(Gateway)
Provider --> SMSC1
|--------> SMSC2
l--------->SMSC3
You still requ ire a SMS gateway for this but this is normally a
cheaper option. Also you get a lot of options for destination networks
because normally in such a case, the middle layer "SMS interconnect Gateway Provider" has
links towards a lot of SMSCs.
Case 3. End Client (Like yourself)
--> SMS interconnect GW Provider --> SMSC1
&nbs
p; |---> SMS interconnect GW provider1 --> SMSC
l---> SMS Interconnect GW provider2 --> SMSC
&nbs
p; l--->
SMSC2
l---> and so on
This is what you get when you connect to above mentioned SMS gateway
operators like Clickatel or mblox or others. This way these providers
can claim of a wide coverage of destination networks while keeping the
costs competitive.
HTH..
-Jeetendra
Baden de Bari wrote:
Thank you for the info. I have already looked at Clickatel. I
also found TynTec ( http://www.tyntec.biz/ ).
If you look on their web site, Clickatel is one of their clients. Why
not just go through TynTec instead, or is TynTec a company you would
connect to if you were running a SMS server like Kannel?
Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Beckman
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:48:38 -0400 (EDT)
To: Baden de Bari
Subject: Re: [Kannel-Users] SMS newbie
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Baden de Bari wrote:
>
> > We are looking to integrate SMS notifications with one of our
web
> > applications. Would using Kannel be more efficient (cheaper
for us) to
> > use instead of linking director to a provider's API via POST
request
> > (such as clickatel.com ) ?
>
> No, you'd still need an SMSC like clickatel or Mobileway or
mobliss or
> mblox (in the US).
>
> Paying for a link would be like $500-$1500/month. Is that cheaper?
I'd
> bet no, but I dunno.
>
> > Can anyone recommend some SMSC providers that we can link to
through an
> > API via HTTP POST? - preferably in North America (Canada) ?
>
> See above.
>
> Beckman
>
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