How do I configure SMPP?

The short message peer-to-peer protocol (SMPP) is a telecommunications industry protocol for exchanging SMS messages between SMS peer entities such as short message service centers. It is often used to allow third parties (for example, value-added service providers like news organizations) to submit messages, sometimes in bulk.

The protocol is based on pairs of request/response PDUs (protocol data units, or packets) exchanged over OSI layer 4 (TCP/IP session or X.25 SVC3) connections. PDUs are binary encoded for efficiency.

The most commonly used versions of SMPP are v3.3 (the most widely supported standard) and v3.4, which adds transceiver support (single connections that can send and receive messages). Data exchange can be synchronous, (each peer waits for a response for each PDU being sent) or asynchronous (messages are received and transmitted in independent threads with the use of buffers and timers). The latest version of SMPP is v5.0.

to know details about SMPP; please refer https://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/ssl/2/en-US/Content/FAQs/configure_smpp_faq.html

How the Intelligent Network works?

In telecommunication company, telecommunications services that provided to their customer is very important. Company will get revenue by providing value-added service to their customer. One of value-added service enabler for telecommunication company is Intelligent Network or known as IN. IN can provide and differentiate their product between their competitor. IN mainly used for Prepaid Charging, in Prepaid Charging system IN hold configuration about charging matrix, discount, bonus and many other prepaid charging service can provided by IN.
Beside used for prepaid charging, IN also can provide another telecommunication service, such as Friend and Family Promo, Corporate User Group, Single IMSI multiple MMDN and many other

 telecommunication service can be provided. IN consist of some network element such as: SCP(service control point), SMP(service management point), SDP(service data point) and RBI. Lets give a brief overview of IN network element:

• SCP : SCP mainly used for call control that communicate to MSC or STP. SCP usually also act as the charging and rating application.
• SMP: SMP used for management of IN. It interact with person or application to make modification of all network element in IN.
• SDP: SDP used for data management, it will used for manipulating and querying data in realtime. All deduction of prepaid subscriber will be done by SDP in realtime
• RBI: RBI used for hold Call Data Record. It will be used by another party to calculate revenue from Intelligent Network. Usually Datawarehouse will used data on RBI.

All of this network element communicate in SS7 and IP based. With the integration of all network element in IN Telecommunications Services will be provided to the customer and revenue will come to the telecommunication company.

LTE Telecommunications

LTE (an initialism of Long Term Evolution), marketed as 4G LTE, is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using new modulation techniques.^[1][2] The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and is specified in its Release 8 document series, with minor enhancements described in Release 9.

The world's first publicly available LTE service was launched by TeliaSonera in Oslo and Stockholm on 14 December 2009.^[3] LTE is the natural upgrade path for carriers with GSM/UMTS networks, but even CDMA holdouts such as Verizon Wireless, who launched the first large-scale LTE network in North America in 2010,^[4][5] and au by KDDI in Japan have announced they will migrate to LTE. LTE is, therefore, anticipated to become the first truly global mobile phone standard, although the use of different frequency bands in different countries will mean that only multi-band phones will be able to utilize LTE in all countries where it is supported.

Although marketed as a 4G wireless service, LTE as specified in the 3GPP Release 8 and 9 document series does not satisfy the technical requirements the 3GPP consortium has adopted for its new standard generation, and which are set forth by the ITU-R organization in its IMT-Advanced specification. The LTE Advanced standard formally satisfies the ITU-R requirements to be considered IMT-Advanced.^[6]

^{source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)}

What is GSM MAP operations?

Hi Folks,

If you wondering what is the GSM MAP operations, this article would tell you what exactly does it means. GSM MAP stands for Global System for Mobile Communication Mobile Application Part where it's include all the following operations:

                                 i.            location registration

                               ii.            gprs location registration

                              iii.            subscriber information enquiry

                             iv.            subscriber management

                               v.            imei management

To get details about complete MAP operations, you can refer to the below links:

https://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=Signaling_System_No_7&seqNum=180