I apologize in advance if my question seems obvious and out of place. I am new to SMS and have had some difficulty in finding sources of information that explain how the SMS system works and what approaches are best for solving particular problems.
We are interested in using SMS on campus to deliver crime alerts to mobile phones of our students, faculty and staff. In order to do this, we obviously need to have their phone number. Do we also need to collect who their wireless carrier is, or is the number sufficient?
Our campus computing infrastructure runs on Sun Solaris Unix and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are not interested in running a Windows server based product.
We will probably have to establish a relationship with a SMSC in order to deliver these SMS messages to students. How does one go about finding appropriate vendors for doing this?
Thanks, Tom -- Tom Karches email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Systems Administrator phone : 919.515.5508 NCSU Information Technology
