Kannel: Open Source SMS and WAP Gateway
By admin on Jul 11, 2008 in open source, telco
Kannel is an open source SMS and WAP gateway. It is developed on Linux using C but should be able to run on Unix like systems. For Windows, you will need the Cygwin to compile it.
For SMS services,
- Work as both Pull and Push gateway
- Can handle 7-bit, 8-bit and Unicode data
- Delivery reports
- Can handle hundreds of messages per second in average workstation
- Can be used to send operator logos, ringing tones, OTA configurations, WAP SI messages etc. but usually the message must be created by hand
- Supports following SMS center protocols: CIMD 1.3, CIMD 2.0, SMPP 3.4, UCP/EMI 4.0. Also: SEMA SMS2000 OIS protocol for SMS centers over Radiopad and X.25.
- Can use GMS phones and GSM modems as pseudo SMS center
- Can connect various HTTP based content gateways
- Can work as aggregator
For WAP services
- WSP: connection oriented and connectionless modes.
- WML compiler from text to binary form. Supports a number of character sets.
- WMLScript compiler: Converts textual WMLScript source code to a byte-code format.
- WTP: class 0, 1, and 2. Error handling is not very much tested, though.
- WDP: Supports only UDP bearer (GSM data and GPRS), no SMS bearer support yet.
- WAP push