On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:35:37PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm looking for a way to do wireline access to send and receive > cellular phone short message service (SMS) messages. Despite all my > google-fu, I have had limited luck finding anyone that meets my needs, > so I'm hoping someone here has found the path through. My main > criteria are: > > > 1. Low quantity, high reliability. I'll want a few dozen phone numbers > and effectively I'll be sending to and receiving from phones I own. > 2. Wireline delivery to Honolulu and Northern Virginia. Dynamically > move numbers between the two locations for failover purposes. > 3. U.S. based carrier. Tying in to the SMS system via Europe isn't > acceptable to my customer. > 4. Solution must reach phones on all U.S. cellular carriers. > 5. Price is a very distant fifth criteria to the preceding four. > > I can consider Internet based systems where the provider uses U.S. > based facilities and ties in to a U.S. phone network, provided that my > standards of reliability and redundancy are met by their > infrastructure. > > Alternately, I can also consider a wireless carrier that can provide > two SIM-based phones with the same phone number for sending and > receiving SMS messages. I'd put the sims in a pair of modems and > manage deduplication of the received messages in software. > > > Has anybody had any luck with this kind of requirement? Which vendors > should I talk to and who at the vendor? > > Thanks, > Bill Herrin
We use the MultiTech MultiModem iSMS SF-100G linked up to an AT&T Wireless account. It has a RESTful API and can handle both transmission and reception of text messages. There are probably SaaS options out there, but have never explored. Thanks, Ray
