Many people consider these (carrier email to SMS gateways) too unreliable as there are no SLAs from the carriers, and sometimes experience long delays in message delivery, or just flat out dropped messages. If this is what you are depending on for outage notification that's a big risk. Some people use a serial interface to a specific model cell phones to directly send the message over the carrier's cellular network. This is good in the event of isolation of a location from any IP connectivity to a carrier gateway. I believe there was another solution that involved direct carrier connections, but these are most likely cost prohibitive in most situations. There is a good thread on this somewhere a little while back in the NANOG archives with more details of the solutions. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Alex Balashov [mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:53 AM To: Shane Ronan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SMS Shane Ronan wrote:
On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it.
Appreciate the assistance.
Why not use an e-mail to SMS gateway from whichever carrier? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671