How to build a Custom Delivery Protocol of SMS

Appreciate for any comment about how to build a custom delivery protocol of SMS (short message service). I am working on a Notification Service project but I have no idea how to write a custom delivery protocol for SMS user.

thank you,

Hi Nemo -

Some links that may help...

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.notificationsvcs/browse_thread/thread/669d84f2ff70e872/cbca58445c41735e?q=sms+&rnum=2#cbca58445c41735e

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.notificationsvcs/browse_thread/thread/6efc2f9083a1e848/1901ade55f731a4e?q=sms+&rnum=7#1901ade55f731a4e

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.notificationsvcs/browse_thread/thread/64881889a372fdf6/2e859f334105a583?q=sms+&rnum=5#2e859f334105a583

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.notificationsvcs/browse_thread/thread/e85aab616313e031/5f054efc9af85ae3?q=sms+&rnum=4#5f054efc9af85ae3

HTH...

Joe

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Hi Joe,

I have similar requirements to Nemo, i.e. need to develop a custom delivery protocol for SMS. However, I cannot use the external providers as one of the requirements is that the application should be able to send notifications via an SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer) Telstra (Aus) server.

Any ideas on how to go about this?

Thanks,

Kevin.

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You cannot send SMS messages directly from you application without special hardware (the simplest and the cheapest solution is just a cell phone plugged into your server, but it's not as simple as it sounds... and not very scalable either).

I am now in Phase 1 of my project, and for now our management is happy to have my app send emails to subscribers. However, when we go to Phase 2 (more core functionality + SMS and AIM), I'll just do my best to convince them to buy an out-of-the-box SMS-related solution from a third party.

...or, maybe, we'll buy a GSM device (or, whatever it's called...), and I'll play with programming it as much as I want. ;-)

By the way, many modern cell phones (let alone more sophisticated and expensive devices) have AIM installed by default (my cell phone that I got for free from T-Mobile has AIM), and you can relatively easily develop a custom delivery channel using AIM SDK. -> http://developer.aim.com/aimccMain.jsp

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Hi Kevin,

When working with with a 'SMPP server' you'll need to create a TCP connection to their server and communicate using the SMPP protocol. One of the first questions they'll need to answer is what version(s) of SMPP they support. Most network providers support 3.4 (with backward compatibility to 3.3).

Regards