Thank you Seikath and and Nikos for your advice. You both have been quite helpful.
On 1/15/09, Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just wanted to say that bandwidth capacity is designed around peak traffic. > Without that, if you assume a constant distribution of the load for 50K SMS > over a month (<160 + overhead ~ 200 B/message) it comes to about 31 bps :-) > > BR, > Nikos > ----- Original Message ----- From: "seikath" <seik...@gmail.com> > To: "Engel L" <choch...@gmail.com>; <users@kannel.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:06 PM > Subject: Re: Kannel in Production - Requirements > > > Hello Engel, >> >> 50K is nothing as amount per month. >> >> You may use even small Linux box with Xeon at 450 MHz :) >> Dont know about the bandwidth, >> I use here 10 Mb international without an issue. >> There are lot of bulk SMS aggregators on the market. >> I have personal experience with Clickatell and InfoBip. >> All you need is to estimate the high loads. >> For example if you send 50 K once at a time, your HTTP server will be >> flooded down. >> For bulk SMS use sqlbox, its has been created for that. >> nice feature at sqlbox is to use one table for all MO MT DLR traffic. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Engel L wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> A company I work for provides System Support Services. We are looking >>> to SMS-enable some systems we support. Having played around with >>> Kannel before, I think we may be able to use it for this purpose. The >>> set-up I foresee is a dedicated server running Kannel, and a number of >>> front end applications (mostly web based) and scripts communicating >>> with the gateway. To begin with, we will be sending strictly MT >>> messages (one way). Our monthly volume estimates are 50,000 messages >>> in the first year. >>> >>> I have a number of questions especially for people who have used >>> Kannel in production. >>> >>> 1. I want a general feel of the hardware requirements that would work >>> for our scenario. I was thinking we start with a leased dedicated >>> server, with 2 NIC cards, one for communication with the SMS service >>> provider via SMPP and one for our apps (HTTP). We have internal >>> Ubuntu expertise so we will most likely run Kannel on a Ubuntu server. >>> >>> 2. Bandwidth requirements: If we are to lease a server, or opt for >>> co-location, how much bandwidth should we pay for from the co-location >>> service provider? We intend to enable DLR feature. I believe the >>> traffic would be only SMPP messages including DLR and HTTP requests >>> and responses. >>> >>> 3. What are your experiences with Bulk SMS service providers? We plan >>> to go the operator route in the future but it appears our volumes may >>> not be big enough to get direct connections to their SMSCs. Which >>> provider are you using and how would you rate their service? >>> >>> Thank you in advance for your help. >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> >>> Engel Linus >>> >>> >> >
