[72946] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: sms messaging without a net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Tue Aug 3 11:47:51 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:47:06 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
SMS is ss7 based. You could buy a pair of combined linkset A links,
buy an SMS gateway and communicate with it.
Your best bet, IMHO, is dialing up and sending pages. There's a protocol..I
forget. It's been a long time.
-M
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Dan Hollis
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:18 AM
To: 'nanog@merit.edu'
Subject: sms messaging without a net?
Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet
connection?
Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly
runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins
know their net has gone down. :-P
AT&T shut down their TAP dialup late last year.
The only method that comes to mind is to buy a GSM modem which has SMS
messaging capability.
Has anyone done this?
-Dan
