Eric, Syniverse charges two MRC componants 1) VPN charges 2) Monthly minimium We are bound by NDA , so I can not disclose their pricing , but If you are interested in sharing a cost of monthly minimum we are happy to work with you. Please contact me offline. thanks, Jay. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Eric Hiller <clec at cygnustel.com> wrote:
So any idea what Syniverse or Verisign charges to act as your gateway provider? High monthly commits?
-Eric
On Tue, April 26, 2011 9:19 pm, Scott Berkman wrote:
I don't believe it's that "simple".
The main issue is that SMS messages were originally hacked into the GSM standard, not a SS7 protocol. While SMS can be carried over SS7, most wireless networks, at least traditionally, did not follow standard SS7 and PSTN concepts in their implementation of SMS, so they are basically separate systems not really connected to the PSTN.
As I understand it, most of the interconnections between different networks that carry SMS are done through gateway providers or private peering. Verisign was the most popular and/or well known for some time:
http://www.verisign.com/static/005168.pdf
This is also part of why it took so long to start having inter-carrier MMS.
Of course the other problem is at "layer 8", so using a well-established gateway is the best way to ensure you have connectivity to all the players without building your own legal team.
Nowadays, many of the SMS gateway companies offer all types of connectivity including SS7 or SIGTRAN, SOAP, SMTP, and a bunch of proprietary protocols.
There are also some good open source projects for running your own SMSC:
http://www.kannel.org/news.shtml
-Scott
-----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Paul Timmins Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:01 AM To: Eric Hiller Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SMS enabled DIDs
On 04/26/2011 10:50 AM, Eric Hiller wrote:
We are a CLEC and have SS7 trunks. From my limited understanding, SMS rides over ISUP, so in theory we would simply have an entry in an SMS DB that says all our SMS messages should be sent to a particular point code correct? Do I have this at all right, and if so, how do I enter this SMS DB point code information?
I've been thinking this myself for some time, and there's a place to input this information in NPAC LTI. I assume you'd also need an SMSC to receive the SMS data, and you'd have to get all the wireless carriers to open up your point code in all their STPs. I presume there's a way to get that information broadcast to all of them.
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