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The mobile phone industry recently celebrated the 15th birthday of
the Short Message Service Center (SMSC), the principal application
behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision (originally
LogicaCMG) in 1992. The first SMSC was introduced as a product
designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability
of a developing mobile industry, and in that year the first of many
deals was signed with Hong Kong CSL, one of Asia’s leading network
operators.
Acision has evolved the SMSC infrastructure from
a basic “SMSC box” to a complete next generation, IP-based SMS
architecture, centered on Acision’s IP SMSC. This enables text
management, a wide range of differentiating service scenarios and a
single rack capacity of 16,000 messages per second that can grow to
virtually unlimited levels.
In 1992, SMSC version 1.0 had a capacity
of 10 messages per second which was soon quickly surpassed through
ongoing innovation to improve capacity, reliability and
accessibility. By 1999 the mobile industry saw the introduction of
the first high performance SMSC, also launched by Acision with what
was then an incredible 50 fold capacity increase to 500 messages per
second. Such capacity speeds have now been greatly exceeded by
today’s further 32 fold capacity increase, achieved by the latest
Acision IP SMSC.
Over the last 15 years Acision’s SMSC has
become the leader of the messaging market, as shown by their first
Asia Pacific customer Hong Kong CSL who remains a customer to this
day, a testament to the value the SMSC has for operators offering a
high-quality SMS experience. Acision’s SMSCs are now responsible
for processing more than half of all global SMS traffic.
--Tech Times
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