Hi You can get a direct link to your carrier; but due to costs, you will need a high volume per month to be cost effective; Also, you will need to have one link per carrier since normally carriers will not forward sms into their SMPP links to another carrier. They will do if usinf a sim card (long code)
An option would be to work with an agregator. You dont need to have any special multitheading for connect kannel to several modems/links; kannel will doit for you, You only need to define as much SMSC's in its configuration as yu need/have. As stated below; I do have over 30 links with one bearerbox; It is however possible to split your traffic between several kannel instances/boxes. Regards Alvaro |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Envíe y Reciba Datos y mensajes de Texto (SMS) hacia y desde cualquier celular y Nextel en el Perú, México y en mas de 180 paises. Use aplicaciones 2 vias via SMS y GPRS online Visitenos en www.perusms.NET www.smsglobal.com.mx y www.pravcom.com On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:52 PM, C. Savinovich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you very much Alvaro, excuse these 2 dumb questions: > > 1) If the carrier provides you with a contract, why can't they just provide > you with an API and receive a text file, or a web service access, or even a > dedicated T1, or anything that will take seconds to transfer all the > messages directly into the carrier's network? isn't it a better idea than > using 20 modems? > > 2) I have seen people having to employ sophisticated multi-threading to > handle 20 modems at the same time, granted, in .net... If I use > Linux/Kannel, will all I need is one Kannel session, with Linux handling all > the multi-tasking?, or should I have to setup 20 concurrent Kannel > instances? > > Many thanks > C. Savinovich > > > > On December 6, 2010 at 2:29 PM Alvaro Cornejo <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> The real throughput will depend on MANY factors so it is diffcult to >> give you a number; but in general, the bottle neck is -using a medium >> hardware- the carrier. >> >> We have over 30 "SMSC" connected to my kannel box. AT, SMPP, Http, >> agregators, propietary ones, etc with no problems. We do have over 20 >> modems connected to a single kannel machine through some terminal >> servers. The troughput of them is in average of 480-500sms/hr >> >> We do have special plans with the carriers to send high volume of sms >> through them, so we have no problems with the carriers blocking the >> sims. >> >> Regards >> >> Alvaro >> >> >> >> >> >> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> Envíe y Reciba Datos y mensajes de Texto (SMS) hacia y desde cualquier >> celular y Nextel >> en el Perú, México y en mas de 180 paises. Use aplicaciones 2 vias via >> SMS y GPRS online >> Visitenos en www.perusms.NET www.smsglobal.com.mx y >> www.pravcom.com >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM, C. Savinovich >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, I have used Kannel before, but I still considered myself >> > a >> > newbie since I have not deployed a system that would really send >> > thousands >> > of messages per day. I have set systems with tops 2 USB modems. I have >> > a >> > few questions, and will really appreciate if someone can help with this >> > very >> > crucial information. The goal is to setup a system with capacity of ten >> > thousand messages per day. >> > >> > 1) I find it hard to believe this is done by connecting 10 sms modems to >> > the >> > USB ports of a linux server. I even can not conceive of being able to >> > buy a >> > $30 unlimited text messaging account, and send through it, one text >> > message >> > every 30 seconds 24/7 without a carrier blocking the chip. Besides, the >> > whole idea of working with literally a row of wireless modems in a colo >> > is >> > so prone to failure (chips having to be replaced, all the time, etc), >> > that I >> > can only think that the way this is done at massive scale, is via a >> > direct >> > API connection to the cellular carrier. Of course there is option of >> > the >> > third party provider, but I wouldn't be using kannel, nor asking these >> > questions if I wanted to use a third party provider. >> > - How is this done in real life? >> > - what is the maximum capacity of a Kannel server? >> > - how many modems can in reality be placed in the same server?... >> > - Is linux enough to handle the multi-processing, or will I have to >> > write a >> > real multi-threading application in house? >> > >> > Thank you very much guys >> > Chris Savinovich >> > >
