Re: sizing to build an SMSC

thanks for sharing this, rachman. I also built a SMS gateway with
support for SMPP and AT. i did in java. took me around 6 months
working part time. but may be i am not that good so someone can wrap
it up better ;-)


On 8/25/05, Rachman Chavik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Navjot Singh wrote:
> > I am doing my masters in communications.
> > Just curious to know some kind of ballpark number in terms of man
> > months to build a *production* level SMSC with complete support to
> > latest 3gpp standards. language could be c/java. hardly matters.
> >
> > ideas about to how to carry this project are also appreciated.
> >
> > which means
> > + impl of smpp/ucp/cimd2/ucp etc
> > + impl of ss7 core links with hlr/vlr - MAP
> > + impl of billing mechanism. (radius/ldap)
> > and much more which all of you guys know better than me ;-)
> >
> > regards
> > Navjot Singh
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I built an rather simple SMS gateway:
> - only SMPP (and only supports a portion of SMPP 3.4 specs)
> - uses kannel libs
> - uses bearerbox for relaying messages
> - no SS7 - MAP
> - no billing, only some rudimentary logging of message detail records
> - beta quality
> 
> resources:
> 1 core (knowledge of SMPP)
> 2 part time (no knowledge of SMPP, implemented non SMPP functions)
> 
> time taken: about 3 months.
> --
> Rachman Chavik
> email: [email protected]
> email: [email protected]
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>