I picked up two of the AT&T "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE network. Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units that makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those into a Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source software to send SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The AT&T Beam's were $20 I think and cost us about $15/mo as additional lines on our corporate plan. Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer Broadband Networks A Watch Communications Company PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173 Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897 adamkennedy@broadbandnetworks.com www.broadbandnetworks.com On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Adam Kennedy <adamkennedy@watchcomm.net> wrote:
I picked up two of the AT&T "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE network. Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units that makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those into a Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source software to send SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The AT&T Beam's were $20 I think and cost us about $15/mo as additional lines on our corporate plan.
Adam Kennedy | Network & Systems Engineer
Broadband Networks
A Watch Communications Company
PO Box 8 | Rushville, Indiana | 46173
Tel - 866-586-1518 | Fax - 866-567-3897
adamkennedy@broadbandnetworks.com
www.broadbandnetworks.com
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:38 PM, <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
I plan to continue living in a rural area with a GSM provider that will support 2G. =)
Frank
-----Original Message----- From: John Levine [mailto:johnl@iecc.com] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 5:24 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: frnkblk@iname.com Subject: Re: SMS gateways
In article <006501d14b31$7c478e40$74d6aac0$@iname.com> you write:
Surprised no one has mentioned the Multimodem iSMS: http://www.multitech.com/brands/multimodem-isms
Been using it for 5+ years -- first three years the code wasn't stable, needing a reboot every few months, but the latest code has been stable for 2+ years.
It looked interesting until I got to the part where it says it uses a 2G GSM modem. AT&T has said quite firmly that they will turn off their 2G network in 2017, and press reports say that T-Mobile is already turning off 2G in favor of LTE.
What do you plan to do instead next year?