[117646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Tue Sep 22 19:29:47 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0909220929w7b4ea46bvcd21f10efc897122@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:28:31 +1200
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 23/09/2009, at 4:29 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Scott Berkman <scott@sberkman.net>
> wrote:
>> Some people use a serial interface to a specific model cell phones to
>> directly send the message over the carrier's cellular network.
>> This is good
>> in the event of isolation of a location from any IP connectivity to a
>> carrier gateway.
>
> The Multitech Multimodem GPRS model MTCBA-G-EN-F4 has an ethernet
> port. Add a SIM card from your favorite wireless carrier and you can
> send and receive SMS messages via "AT" commands over a TCP socket.
> Problem is, it seizes up or otherwise founders every few weeks and has
> to be power cycled.
>
> Has anyone heard of other products with a good reliability record?
That is shocking.
I have had a fantastic track record with a Maestro 100 GSM modem with
a serial interface.
One of my customers has one powered on for about a year now, and it's
never missed a beat.
They apparently support TCP/IP and the datasheet mentions something
about email, but I have no idea what that really means, and don't
really care so much.
I send it standard GSM AT commands, and it just works.
I've done the whole old nokia handset thing in the past several times
and it's *ok*. Now though, I say don't bother, this thing is maybe a
couple hundred dollars, and saves you oodles of time fooling around
making it work reliably.
--
Nathan Ward
