Re: Billing & Kannel SMS side

Citando "Kita B. Ndara" <[email protected]>:

>  
> --- Stipe Tolj <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > "Kita B. Ndara" wrote:
> > > 
> > >  Is there any good reason why the kannel sms part
> > does
> > > not incorporate some kind of billing support? What
>  
> 
>  Ok, but in this case kannel would merely leave it up
> to external commands to provide this functionality --
> just as we do for content. That is, only if the
> pre-submit comamnd returns TRUE do we put the msg on
> the smsc-specific queue, and after it is accepted, we
> run the post-submit command. The first one is like a
> balance check, the latter the real billing command. 
>  Does this still violate the goodness of OS? 

Yes, because you don't want to make a such expensive call to an external system,
for each message you send.

If you are sending 100's msg/sec, you would need a system that would reply
faster than 0,010 seconds ;)






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