[128247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Wed Jul 28 07:48:12 2010
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:47:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM>
In-Reply-To: <4C4FFCE0.4040601@Opus1.COM>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joel M Snyder wrote:
> It's completely out-of-band, even more so than our old
> touch-tone-phone-paging system was, so I'm actually happier with the total
> performance. Given that GSM coverage is increasing while pager coverage
> seems static or decreasing, SMS via out-of-band GSM looks like a great
> solution.
Be wary, there is a fast growing trend amongst mobile operators to
outsource backhaul from their towers to IP network operators. So far
there are only a few that are using the same network as for other IP
traffic, but the economy of scale motivations to combine onto a single IP
network are strong and will not be resisted for long.
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