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Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrey Gordon)
Wed Apr 16 13:58:41 2008

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:34:54 -0500
From: "Andrey Gordon" <andrey.gordon@gmail.com>
To: "David Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <48063098.2050500@everydns.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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I have one of these babies
http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemCDMA/
with SMS Server Tools 3 running (hacked up for CDMA, cuz they dont'
support CDMA out of the box)

$40 a month does the trick

There was a good thread about sms notifications not so long time ago.
Here is what the summary was:



On Fri, Sep 7, 2007 at 6:54 PM, Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com> wrote:

As an experiment, I wanted to try to summarize all the answers given on
this question, hope this helps someone.

Suggestions given:

* modem and TAP gateway
** TAP numbers at  http://www.avtech.com/Support/TAP/index.htm
** Software: sendpage or qpage

* Mobile phone with a serial port and AT commandset
** Software: sms-tools gnokii gsmd
** Issues: not reliable because of battery drain

* Purpose-made GSM/CDMA modems
** Software: same as above
** Manufacturers: Intercel, Sierra 750 (PCMCIA), Falcom Samba 75 (USB)

* Purpose-made GSM-IP modems
** Manufacturers: http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=70

* Pages via DTMF
** Hylafax/asterisk

- -alex [for mlc]

- --
Andrey Gordon [andrey.gordon@gmail.com]
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support CDMA out of the box)<br><br>$40 a month does the trick<br><br>There was a good thread about sms notifications not so long time ago.<br>Here is what the summary was:<br><br><br><br>On Fri, Sep 7, 2007 at 6:54 PM, Alex Pilosov &lt;<a href="mailto:alex@pilosoft.com">alex@pilosoft.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>As an experiment, I wanted to try to summarize all the answers given on<br>this question, hope this helps someone.<br><br>Suggestions given:<br><br>* modem and TAP gateway<br>** TAP numbers at &nbsp;<a href="http://www.avtech.com/Support/TAP/index.htm">http://www.avtech.com/Support/TAP/index.htm</a><br>
** Software: sendpage or qpage<br><br>* Mobile phone with a serial port and AT commandset<br>** Software: sms-tools gnokii gsmd<br>** Issues: not reliable because of battery drain<br><br>* Purpose-made GSM/CDMA modems<br>
** Software: same as above<br>** Manufacturers: Intercel, Sierra 750 (PCMCIA), Falcom Samba 75 (USB)<br><br>* Purpose-made GSM-IP modems<br>** Manufacturers: <a href="http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=70">http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=70</a><br>
<br>* Pages via DTMF<br>** Hylafax/asterisk<br><br>- -alex [for mlc]<br><br>- -- <br>Andrey Gordon [<a href="mailto:andrey.gordon@gmail.com">andrey.gordon@gmail.com</a>]<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin)<br>
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