IMS-CS Overview
Protocom's Intelligent Messaging System - Connectivity Switch (IMS-CS) is an extremely high performance messaging gateway for sending, routing and receiving SMS, email and MMS messages. The system offers an alternative to Protocom's IMS for Mobile Operators requiring a higher message throughput and network expansion options in preference to features and extensive routing options.
IMS-CS efficiently routes messages either as a single node or a distributed system. In its distributed form, IMS-CS is able to fully utilise hardware resources and facilitate network expansion simply through the addition of machines. The gateway also provides a single access point for inbound connections to an underlying SMSC and MMSC infrastructure. Key Benefits
- Low capital and operational costs
- Optimised routing rules enable extremely efficient message switching
- Message rate throttling for Application Providers facilitates charging levels based on allowed message rates
- Modular architecture enables rapid development of interface protocol add-ons
- Configurable load balancing and redundancy options allow easy management of network resources and expansion of network.
- Scaleable to 100 000s of messages/sec
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Features
- Supports SMPP, MM7, MM4, SMTP, and UCP protocols
- Efficient routing algorithms
- Load balancing options including round-robin, weighted round-robin, and message volume
- Number range (source and destination) routing
- Distributed output channels
- Global and client application message throttling
- Unsuccessful message overflow to parallel IMS-CS node(s)
- Logging and alarming via SNMP
- Configurable via HTML or UNIX command-line interface
- Operational utilities available via HTML or UNIX command-line interface
- Statistics and other reports presented in HTML and ASCII formats
- Complete or partial backup facility
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