SM
Collector - Collectin bulk number of short
messages from all operators..
SMS is
the most popular data bearer in GSM, which
receives the highest percentage out of both
usage and total revenues. Apart from person-to-person
messaging, plenty of value added services
are offered via SMS.
Until now, services, which requires a reply
path for subscribers (like televoting, etc.),
have been only offered to the operators’
own subscribers. The main reason lying behind
this is of course the technical limitation,
which prohibits other network subscribers
to be able to reply to the SMS from competitor
networks
These kinds of SMS replies can be collected
in two different ways by third party applications:
Through
a client connection to SMSC :
Since such applications can be addressed
only by the SMSC of the home network
with 4 digit client numbers, subscribers
of other networks cannot send replies
over the SMSC of their network.
By
a GSM modem :
Although a global GSM number is available,
which enables other network subscribers
to send SMS also; GSM modems have a
very low capacity and also very low
performance and therefore they are unable
to collect bulk SMS.
SM Collector
overcomes these technical difficulties and enables
the operators to offer SMS based value added services
even to the competitor GSM operators’ subscribers
by providing a Global GSM number and collecting
bulk number of SMS. SM Collector acts like a node
in the network and is connected to the core network
by SS7 links just like an SMSC.
Service
Scenario
SM
Collector provides a Global GSM
number rather than a 4-digit client
number; for example like “+90AAAXXXXXXX”.
Therefore a subscriber (of any foreign
Network Operator) sends a Short
Message to this unique number, this
message follows the below procedures:
First it is submitted
to the SMSC of his own network,
Then
it is delivered to the home network of
the SM Collector (to the Gateway MSC of
the home network from the subscriber’s
home GMSC),
In
the home network it is delivered to the
SM Collector from the GMSC over SS7 links.
SM Collector delivers
the message to a Value Added Services
Platform.
