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RE: Wired access to SMS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Finnesey)
Sat Oct 13 00:06:03 2012
From: Ryan Finnesey <ryan@finnesey.com>
To: "joly@punkcast.com" <joly@punkcast.com>, Tim M Edwards <tim@lifelike.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:05:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAM9VJk0z4uwR=hJ0rbkCwesRaeyXvNLQoM3Aqx9yLpGi-yYxYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I have been happy with the services from twilio
Cheers
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Joly MacFie [mailto:joly@punkcast.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 8:24 PM
To: Tim M Edwards
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Wired access to SMS?
More precisely http://www.twilio.com/sms
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On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Tim M Edwards <tim@lifelike.com> wrote:
> Twillio.com
>
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:36 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to do wireline access to send and receive=20
> > cellular phone short message service (SMS) messages. Despite all my=20
> > google-fu, I have had limited luck finding anyone that meets my=20
> > needs, so I'm hoping someone here has found the path through. My=20
> > main criteria are:
> >
> >
> > 1. Low quantity, high reliability. I'll want a few dozen phone=20
> > numbers and effectively I'll be sending to and receiving from phones I =
own.
> > 2. Wireline delivery to Honolulu and Northern Virginia. Dynamically=20
> > move numbers between the two locations for failover purposes.
> > 3. U.S. based carrier. Tying in to the SMS system via Europe isn't=20
> > acceptable to my customer.
> > 4. Solution must reach phones on all U.S. cellular carriers.
> > 5. Price is a very distant fifth criteria to the preceding four.
> >
> > I can consider Internet based systems where the provider uses U.S.
> > based facilities and ties in to a U.S. phone network, provided that=20
> > my standards of reliability and redundancy are met by their=20
> > infrastructure.
> >
> > Alternately, I can also consider a wireless carrier that can provide=20
> > two SIM-based phones with the same phone number for sending and=20
> > receiving SMS messages. I'd put the sims in a pair of modems and=20
> > manage deduplication of the received messages in software.
> >
> >
> > Has anybody had any luck with this kind of requirement? Which=20
> > vendors should I talk to and who at the vendor?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Herrin
> >
> >
> > --
> > William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com =20
> > bill@herrin.us
> > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/>=20
> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
> >
>
>
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