In an application with more than 2000 devices setup to potentially send several SMS' per minute, considering SMSEagle's NXS-9700-3G has a maximum throughput of 30 SMS/minutes, is it possible to setup a DMA/DMS so it can manage multiple of these devices? Is there any other gateway you would recommend for such an application?
Hi Enrique,
We currently do not have support for multiple SMS gateways. 20-30 SMS/minute seems to be the technology limitation of SMS for a single channel, but several manufactures have devices that support multiple channels, such as the SMSeagle MHD-8100 4G (8 channels). These are currently not tested with DataMiner, but as the API should be similar to the regular SMSEagle it can probably be integrated upon request.
In the past, we did create an interface to a web service (Ooredoo Messenger) that is responsible for sending the text message. Since we were also dealing with a large DMS where DMAs are spread around the world, the text message couldn't originate all from the same country.
Technically, it's a driver/connector talking to the Ooredoo web messenger (but could be any interface really). When a text message is sent in DataMiner, an information event is generated (with the recipient inside). We trigger on this via a correlation rule and via automation we send the message using that connector. Note that this is some kind of workaround. As mentioned by Michiel, from an architectural point of view it's better that this is handled straight by the core DataMiner software.
Since it's quite a flow to send the text message, speed-wise it's around the same speed as you mentioned in your message. But from my experience only in case of a severe outage this threshold is exceeded and then it works with a stack. Anything that come in faster is added to an SMS stack and is handled FIFO.