[157198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wired access to SMS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Wed Oct 10 14:03:05 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWbOGMMySTYnivtG085ZUGHMeay+UF=6fY7Xn3fwiFtEg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:02:29 -0700
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Inmarsat SMS?
http://www.marlink.com/text-messaging.html
-Mike
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> 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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