[186846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMS gateways
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Wed Jan 6 18:32:00 2016
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 23:31:54 +0000
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David,
Thanks for those pointers. The "mega bill" problem is one I have to avoid. =
We used to use ISDN as backup to T1 circuits, but had to abandon that after=
some wayward fail-overs resulted in $5000 phone bills. I'll check the plan=
overage terms carefully!
-mel
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From: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 2:37 PM
To: Mel Beckman; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: SMS gateways
The specific phrase you=92ll want to use with your VZ rep is a =93machine t=
o machine=94 plan. It=92s the same type of plans alarm companies purchase =
for cell-backups. They have plans with data allowances as low as 1 MB/mont=
h for a few dollars, but you get destroyed if you go over the plan because =
the data rates are very high. If you just use them for emergency OOB ssh o=
ver cell they=92re great and economical.
David
On 1/6/16, 5:14 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman" <nanog-bounces@nanog.o=
rg on behalf of mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>The problem with Internet-based services is that they depend on the very t=
hing most of us are trying to monitor. For reliable SMS you need out-of-ban=
d text transmission at least, and ideally out-of-band TCP/IP data. So far c=
ellular modems provide lots of options for the latter, but I've seen few un=
iversally-available choices for the former. I plan to check out the Verizon=
options mentioned here -- the last time I tried to talk to our business ex=
ec, they claimed there were no cheap options.
>
> -mel
