Re: SMSC-box?
Andreas Fink <[email protected]>
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On Samstag, September 21, 2002, at 05:16 Uhr, Rene Kluwen / Chimit Software Solutions wrote: > Hello devel, > > When reading the docs, I came upon a question. > Have there been thoughts about putting the smsc-interfaces into a > seperate box? > And then have the messages come in through a connector, the same way > as UDP datagrams come in? > True... I think in daily usage, most people use only 1 smsc. > But if requirements are lots of messages per minute. This feature > would add to scalability in terms of just putting more hardware. > > Just my 2 cts. > Current Kannel with bearerbox being a router and smsbox being a processing entity which can be load shared, Kannel can easily handle houndrets of messages per seconds on inexpensive hardware. Our tests running kannel in a loop over a SMPP to HTTP emulator which feeded the messages back to kannel (not optimized at all I must say) has shown that it can easily handle 400msg/sec. Good enough? If you need more preformance, just run kannel in parallel on multiple machines. Andreas Fink Global Networks, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tel: +41-61-6932730 Fax: +41-61-6932729 Mobile: +41-79-2457333 Global Networks, Inc. Schwarzwaldallee 16, 4058 Basel, Switzerland Web: http://www.global-networks.ch/ [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------ Member of the GSM Association