world's first distributed sms-c architecture brings increased resilience and throughput to messaging infrastructure marketplace
Mobile messaging services provider
TynTec (www.tyntec.com) today announces the launch of Supernet SMS-C, a
new distributed SMS-Centre (SMS-C) architecture. With this new
architecture TynTec is introducing a 'multi-homed' SMS-C capability as
well as dynamic routing in the SS7 network, thus enabling TynTec to
provide its customers with an improved quality of service in SMS
transmission by having several delivery options through different hub
operators.
Supernet SMS-C turns the traditional SMS-C architecture on its head.
Operators have traditionally housed a single, monolithic SMS-C within
their network to manage the reception and distribution of SMS messages
to their subscribers. Supernet SMS-C instead operates small, distributed
interface units within user networks, each reporting back to a single
centralised SMS-C unit hosted on TynTec's own enterprise strength server
system.
Supernet SMS-C effectively allows one SMS-C to operate in several hub
operators' networks at the same time. The advantage of this model is
that messages can be re-routed through lower cost network routes or
simply re-directed to different routes for resilience, e.g. when a hub
is down.
This distributed architecture also means that Supernet SMS-C can
essentially provide SMS in a software as a service (SAAS) model, rather
than an in-house technical process. As an outsourced service, Supernet
SMS-C offers a number of benefits over an in-house SMS-C. As well as the
reduced cost and management hassle associated with a managed service
provision model, Supernet SMS-C means that operators can avoid getting
trapped into the costly upgrade and replacement cycle inherent in the
licensed software model.
As well as presenting a new outsourcing option for operators, the new
SMS-C architecture also gives TynTec an unparalleled level of resilience
in its own SMS operations. The structure enables the company to
re-route SMS on the fly to any one of its operator partners using its
portfolio of SS7 connections. In this way TynTec can futher 'armour
plate' the delivery guarantees provided as part of its enterprise
strength SMS offering.
Thorsten Trapp, CTO of TynTec, said: "Supernet is a true paradigm shift
in SMS technology. For the first time we've moved away from the idea of
the SMS-C as a piece of software towards seeing it as a managed service.
"The technical management of SMS is increasingly a non-core activity for
operators and Supernet enables the reliable and cost-effective
outsourcing of these processes with a distributed SMS-C architecture."
