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SS7 engine dedicated to SMS applications

Answer the growing need for direct SMS access
The total number of text messages to mobile phones worldwide is approaching 10 billion SMS per month. In addition to the traditional subscriber-to-subscriber use, today the SMS is gaining the application world as part of the corporate mobile-office and event-notification revolution. The SMS Direct Path Gateway answers the growing need for direct SMS access, providing mobile operators with SMSC independent solution that is efficient and cost effective.

Does not require connection to the SMSC!
The gateway is physically connected directly to the operator's PLMN supporting connections to one or several telecom mobile switches and integrating SS7 software stack MAP/TCAP/SCCP. The solution allows the operator to keep the SMSC dedicated to mission critical subscriber-to-subscriber SMS messaging.

Telecom-class platform scaleable to up to 120 SMS per second
The SMS Direct Path Gateway supports charge of up to 300 mobile terminated SMS per second on a single-node platform. A 4-nodes solution allows reaching a top performance of 1200 mobile terminated SMS per second with selectable SMS message classes 0, 1, 2, 3.

HTTP Application Interface
Allow programmatic SMS delivery from applications and web site scripts. Transmission of messages to the SMS Direct Path Gateway is simply via HTTP and optionally SSL. Both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 (persistent connections) are supported.

Session-Oriented Application Interface
Transmission of messages to the SMS Direct Path Gateway is via a permanent TCP/IP session, allowing a single application to maintain an SMS_MT sending rate of up to 600 messages per second. Can be also used for SMS notification interface for mobile network applications such as VMS, Unified Messaging and Prepaid.

WAP-Push
WAP-Push allows the operator and ASPs to remotely install new applications and services.

SMS Coding
Supported coding is 7, 8 or 16 bits allow transmission of respectively 160, 140 or 70 characters messages.

SMS Message Class
Supported are Class 0, 1, 2 and 3 messages. Supported are also SIM card downloads (PID type 127).

Text, Picture and Ringtone Transmission
In addition to SMS in text format, supported are picture messaging, operator logo and group icon transmission. Ringtone transmission is in RTTTL format.

Distribution List Management
Allow implementation of SMS based marketing campaigns. Large distribution lists can be uploaded on the SMS Direct Path Gateway allowing savings of incoming IP traffic.

SMS Delivery Confirmations
Convenient way to check whether an SMS has indeed reached the intended recipient or not. Confirmations are returned to a callback URL, e-mail address or available on demand to the application.

Message Indicator Modification
Modify the voice, fax, and e-mail message indicators on a mobile phone. Useful for unified messaging, mobile e-mail services etc. Allow to check if a mobile phone is switched on or off without making the phone user aware of the test.

International SMS alphabets
In standard Latin characters are supported. Chinese, Arabic and Cyrillic can be installed on demand.

PLMN Connectivity
Up to 32 HLR addresses, 64 MSC addresses and 1 International Roaming Gateway address can be configured.

Billing
Detailed billing records (CDRs) are generated in real-time. CDRs are structured on account, on application and on protocol (MAP/TCAP) level, allowing integration of almost any billing model. Accounts can be billed on prepaid basis.

Operation and Maintenance (OMC)
The SMS Direct Path Gateway is provided with integrated web enabled OMC allowing to monitor all quality-of-service parameters. SNMP, email and SMS alarms are supported.