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Re: sms messaging without a net?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGrath)
Thu Aug 5 16:28:04 2004

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:26:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
	"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040803092106.GI56071@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



Use TAP (telocator access protocol) your monitoring application dials a
modem pool logs on and sends a text message to the subscriber.

Verizon, Cingular, Nextel all offer this service as does Skytel and most
of the paging vendors.

                            Scott C. McGrath

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Adrian Chadd wrote:

>
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> GNOKII and a suitable nokia phone.
>
> http://www.gnokii.org/
>
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
> --
> Adrian Chadd			I'm only a fanboy if
> <adrian@creative.net.au>	    I emailed Wesley Crusher.
>
>
>

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