Enables IP-based broadband access to interwork with the existing SMS and MMS messaging services.
Overview
Short message service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) dominate the mobile messaging services market as the top two revenue generators. With so much at stake, it is critical for operators to protect those revenues as they transition to all Internet protocol (IP) networks based on long term evolution (LTE) and Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) to support data-enabled applications. The transition will take some time and likely involve a long period of migrating subscribers to IP handsets. The ability to interwork existing, circuit-switched and new, packet-based networks is essential to ensure seamless messaging between IP-enabled, dual-mode devices and 2G/3G handsets.
Product Description
Tekelec’s IP Short Message Gateway (IP-SM-GW) acts as a bridge, managing the origination and termination of SMS messages between circuit-switched and IP-based networks. With the solution, mobile operators can use existing messaging platforms such as short message service centers (SMSCs) and multimedia message service centers (MMSCs) to deliver IP-based messaging.
The IP Short Message Gateway is part of Tekelec’s Mobile Messaging product family, a set of modular components that can be used to create a complete end-to-end messaging network or deployed in the existing SMS infrastructure to grow capacity and capabilities incrementally.
Benefits
- Protects SMS and MMS revenues
- Supports cost-effective growth by enabling the reuse of circuit-switched messaging resources
- Simplifies network migration
