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Title: Kannel as an SMS Gateway


1
Kannel as an SMS Gateway
  • Short Message Services
  • By
  • Tarun Dua
  • Company Induslogic Inc.
  • LUG Affiliation Linux Delhi

2
What is Kannel?
  • SMS WAP Gateway
  • Acts as a Uniform Gateway Service between various
    types of SMSC(s) for transporting SMS messages

3
Various Terms
  • SMSC Short Message Service Center connected to
    Internet
  • MO Mobile Originated
  • MT Mobile Terminated
  • dlr Status Message
  • bearerbox Central Queue
  • smsbox SMSC connection

4
How does SMS work
  • Analogy with E-mail
  • Store and Forward
  • Delivery Report
  • SMSC is analogous to an MTA
  • Kannel is analogous to a E-mail Gateway Server

5
WAP vs SMS
  • SMS has existed longer than WAP and most phones
    are equipped with SMS capability

6
Why an SMS Gateway
  • Better Communication
  • SMS enabled phones are pervasive
  • Information Enabled Field Force
  • Far more SMS enabled phones than PC(s)

7
Kannel Installation
  • Binary/RPM/Deb Packages
  • or
  • Compile from source
  • bearerbox ( Core Component)
  • smsbox (SMS )

8
Kannel Architecture (MT)
  • Simplified View of Kannel

SMSC
SMSBox
SMS Protocols
HTTP Requests
BearerBox
SMSBox
SMSC
9
Kannel Configuration for MT
  • Bearerbox Configuration ( Core )
  • SMSC configuration

10
SMSBox Configuration
  • User Authentication
  • URL Translator
  • Delivery Reports Handling

11
SMSC Protocols
  • cimd, cimd2
  • emi, emi_x25
  • smpp
  • sema
  • ois
  • http

12
SMS Delivery Reports
  • Various Methods
  • Internal Storage
  • MySQL Storage
  • libsdb

13
E-mail to SMS Strategies
  • Separate SMS domain
  • Processing at MX
  • Procmail Handlers
  • Separate Pager E-mail Addresses
  • mail2sms
  • http//www.contactor.se/dast/mail2sms/

14
References
  • http//kannel.org
  • http//www.contactor.se/dast/mail2sms
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