Hi, We've been using Falcom and Tango modems in the past, but they've been difficult to buy lately. Instead we're considering buying "Moxa OnCell" or "Siemens MC35i" (which appears to be identical to "Cinterion MC35i").
Now that we're looking to test and buy new modems anyway, we'd love some that work better in VMware ESX environments where access to serial ports isn't possible. All the above modems except the "Moxa OnCell" are accessed via a serial port. E.g. something that holds a SIM card, has an IP address and provides an SMPP interface would be perfect, but I realise I'm a novice in this field. So far in VMware, we've been setting up Moxa Serial Device Servers ( http://www.moxa.com/product/Serial_Device_Servers.htm ) that via a kernel module in the ESXi virtual host provide access to a pseudo-serial port. That is flaky at best. The "Moxa OnCell" also needs a kernel module, and we haven't yet had success with it. I've read http://kannel.org/compatibility.shtml but I haven't been able to find a vendor for any of the "Phones that works as SMSC's with Kannel". At least two of the three are no longer being produced, but I think they all used serial port access, and so don't work so well under VMware. So in short, I'm looking equipment/solutions recommendations that allow us to send SMSes from both real hardware and VMware ESX guests using our own SIM card (not a remote hosted solution), using hardware that is still current and in production and without kernel modules/patches. Does such equipment exist? What do you recommend? Thank you for reading this far. Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com
