[157197] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wired access to SMS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Oct 10 13:41:40 2012
In-Reply-To: <5075B221.1070304@rollernet.us>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:41:00 -0400
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 10/10/12 10:10 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> So, I need to replace it with something that offers high availability
>> for each phone number, aka "SMS long code." I realize that the phone
>> end will still suffer all the vagaries of SMS. But on the base end I
>> need high availability.
>
> What about finding someplace offsite and setting up a persistent PPP
> connection with modems (of the POTS variety) between it and home base?
> Put half the modems there and maybe a low power Atom server with hooks
> to send alerts like "connection to home hasn't come back after X redials".
To do that, I'd need a way to assign the same phone number (SMS long
code) to two different modems, one at the first site, one at the
second. I'd welcome a lead on a phone product or vendor who can do
that for me.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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