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What is the concept of SMS Gateway?

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What is the concept of SMS Gateway?
posted Sep 18, 2014 by Varnita Chaudhari

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SMS gateway is a node which helps to send and receive the short message in the network and is called SMSC i.e. short message service center. At the protocol level an SMSC has MAP over SS7 and has connectivity with MSC and other SMSC in the network.

At the functionality level SMS gateways solve the problem of inter operability i.e. different providers using different or proprietary communication protocols. The gateway acts as a relay, translating one protocol into another when acting as relay and handles operations such as routing, forwarding and storing incoming text messages on their way to desired endpoints when acting as gateway.

answer Sep 18, 2014 by Salil Agrawal
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