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Ivan Zhidov
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Username: Izhidov

Post Number: 4
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 07:54 pm:   

Could you point me to any previous posts/references having to do with customization required when deploying with a CDMA operator and having partitoned notification SMS?
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 6603
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 09:42 pm:   

Hi Ivan,

The following link contains a lot of infomation:

http://www.nowsms.com/support/bulletins/tb-nowsms-010.htm

I'm happy to answer any questions related to it.

-bn
Ivan Zhidov
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Username: Izhidov

Post Number: 5
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 - 02:26 am:   

Great, I will read it.

Also what kind of perfomance does NowMMS provide given adequate hardware? The setup would be direct SMPP to SMSC with MMS pick up by the handset, any kind of benchamrks would be appreciated.

Who's your sales contact for US? Last time I sent an email and left VM and nobody got back to me on pricing for North America.

Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 6607
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 - 09:25 pm:   

I can't explain why you didn't get a response to either e-mail or voice mail ... Lisa is the hardest working woman in North America. (1.410.833.8711 or lisa@nowwireless.com)

Performance with MMS is a lot harder to quantify than with SMS.

One factor that makes it difficult to provide a clear benchmark is that MMS message sizes are highly variable.

But another factor is that the MMS delivery process has multiple stages. The MMSC needs to package the content and publish a dynamic link to the content ... it then needs to pump the MMS notification to an SMSC ... upon receipt of the MMS notification, the client connects to the MMSC to retrieve the URL.

When we talk about performance with SMS, we normally talk about how quickly we can pump messages to an SMSC (rates that range from 5 messages per minute to 200 messages per second).

But SMS messages have a fixed message size limit, and it's a single stage delivery (at least the part that we're being judged on).

Generally speaking, NowSMS is quite fast as an MMSC, because we are designed to dispatch the notifications very quickly over SMS ... and designed to handle large numbers of concurrent message retrieval transactions.

But because of all of the variables, it's hard to determine what benchmarks are meaningful.