SMSC Speed Limits
In a perfect world, we’d all be able to send SMS messages as fast as we wanted. But the reality is that there is a combination of commercial and technical limitations throughout the message distribution chain. NowSMS has commercial limitations where outbound message delivery is throttled at a per minute or per second license limit. Individual SMS service providers have similar limits that...
Read MoreMigrating to a Multiple Server MMSC, WAP Gateway, or NowSMS Gateway
The recent postings about multiple server redundant NowSMS or NowWAP configurations have generated a lot of questions from existing customers about how to migrate an existing installation to a multiple server configuration. Migrating an existing NowWAP installation to a multiple server configuration is the easiest task to explain. That’s because there is no shared data storage requirement,...
Read MoreNowSMS in Fault Tolerant or Redundant Load Balanced Environment
For many configurations it is desirable to install NowSMS on multiple servers in order to achieve fault tolerance and/or improved throughput and performance. NowSMS offers extreme configuration flexibility to facilitate these requirements. This document outlines the multi-server configuration options that exist for NowSMS v2008.06.03 and later versions. Preferred Solution for Load-Balanced...
Read MoreNowWAP in Fault Tolerant or Redundant Load Balanced Environment
For many configurations it is desirable to install NowWAP on multiple servers in order to achieve fault tolerance and/or improved throughput and performance. The only special consideration when running NowWAP in this type of clustered configuration is if NowWAP is configured to use RADIUS accounting to supply MSISDN information to one or more content servers, such as an MMSC. This document...
Read MoreMMSC MM4 Interconnection Basics
MM4 is the standard protocol that is defined for connecting together two or more MMSCs. MM4 is an SMTP based protocol, meaning that the MM4 protocol defines how MMS messages are encapsulated for delivery over the SMTP protocol. In NowSMS, to define an MM4 interconnection, it is necessary to define two components. The outbound connection to the other MMSC is defined under “MMSC...
Read More2-way SMS: Multiple operators with the same shortcode
This configuration issue comes up quite a bit. Let’s say that you are connecting directly to multiple mobile operators, and your service is using the same short code on each operator. When customers send a message in to your short code, you want to make sure that the reply is sent back via the same mobile operator as which the message was received. Additionally, if that message from the...
Read MoreMMS Message-ID Length problems with some handsets and/or MM4
We received a report from a customer that was experiencing a problem where some Nokia handsets would restart themselves after sending an MMS message. The MMS message would be sent ok, but the sending handset would restart after a confirmation is displayed that the MMS message had been sent. This problem was caused because the length of the MMS message-id generated by the NowSMS MMSC was longer...
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