Hi,
Just wanted to say that bandwidth capacity is designed around peak traffic.
Without that, if you assume a constant distribution of the load for 50K SMS
over a month (<160 + overhead ~ 200 B/message) it comes to about 31 bps :-)
BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message -----
From: "seikath" <[email protected]>
To: "Engel L" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Kannel in Production - Requirements
Hello Engel,
50K is nothing as amount per month.
You may use even small Linux box with Xeon at 450 MHz :)
Dont know about the bandwidth,
I use here 10 Mb international without an issue.
There are lot of bulk SMS aggregators on the market.
I have personal experience with Clickatell and InfoBip.
All you need is to estimate the high loads.
For example if you send 50 K once at a time, your HTTP server will be
flooded down.
For bulk SMS use sqlbox, its has been created for that.
nice feature at sqlbox is to use one table for all MO MT DLR traffic.
Cheers
Engel L wrote:
Hi,
A company I work for provides System Support Services. We are looking
to SMS-enable some systems we support. Having played around with
Kannel before, I think we may be able to use it for this purpose. The
set-up I foresee is a dedicated server running Kannel, and a number of
front end applications (mostly web based) and scripts communicating
with the gateway. To begin with, we will be sending strictly MT
messages (one way). Our monthly volume estimates are 50,000 messages
in the first year.
I have a number of questions especially for people who have used
Kannel in production.
1. I want a general feel of the hardware requirements that would work
for our scenario. I was thinking we start with a leased dedicated
server, with 2 NIC cards, one for communication with the SMS service
provider via SMPP and one for our apps (HTTP). We have internal
Ubuntu expertise so we will most likely run Kannel on a Ubuntu server.
2. Bandwidth requirements: If we are to lease a server, or opt for
co-location, how much bandwidth should we pay for from the co-location
service provider? We intend to enable DLR feature. I believe the
traffic would be only SMPP messages including DLR and HTTP requests
and responses.
3. What are your experiences with Bulk SMS service providers? We plan
to go the operator route in the future but it appears our volumes may
not be big enough to get direct connections to their SMSCs. Which
provider are you using and how would you rate their service?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kind Regards,
Engel Linus
