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Piecing together the information I've learned over time, is it possible that VeriSign handles some of that for Verizon? Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Deepak Jain Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:37 PM To: David Coulson Cc: David Ulevitch; [email protected] Subject: Re: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days) Verizon at least, uses SS7 signaling to deliver on-network SMS. This means they can provide delivery confirmation with their SMSes. I am not aware of another US network that does this or interacts with Verizon over SS7 for SMS exchange. So, if you are using a phone's SMS capability on the same network (e.g. Verizon) and it has delivery confirmation you might be very happy. Deepak David Coulson wrote: > > In my experience, even with TAP, sending messages to a cell phone is > spotty at best. I have folks on both uni-directional pagers via TAP or > SNPP, as well as cell phones via e-mail and TAP. There isn't a > noticeable difference in delivery time between e-mail and TAP on the > phones. > > Cell to Cell is probably the best option if you want to stick with SMS > to cell phones. I have no idea how reliable it is between carriers. I > still get some comfort knowing that people have pagers with a TAP > gateway - I've no idea how the technology differs between a pager and > SMS, but it seems much more reliable. All of the pager problems I've had > in the last few years have been, erm, 'payment related'. > > David Ulevitch wrote: >> >> We've noticed that [email protected] is no longer a very reliable >> form of delivery for alerts from Nagios, et al. It seems as our >> volume of alerts has risen, our delivery rate has dropped precipitously. >> >> We don't expect much trying to actually reach a postmaster for >> vtext.com so I thought the better question would be to ask what the >> current best practice is to get SMS alerts out? >> >> Back in the day, I remember a company I worked for had something >> called a TAP gateway. Is that still a good route? I've also been >> told to check out an SMS gateway/api service called clickatell.com -- >> anyone using them to delivering timely notifications? >> >> Is the best thing to do to try and get a programmable cellphone in a >> datacenter? >> >> What else are operators doing to get the pages out when things go wonky? >> >> -David >> > >
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