I have recently worked an application where we needed to send and receive SMS messages. The application will receive a sms message, and return some business values to the client. It will also periodically push message to clients and update the status of their transactions. It become obvious that we need a gateway that could handle sms message between our applications and client’s handheld devices.
The application would be part of platform which includes asterisks(Open source PBX) and other great open source products. We needed to have an open source sms gateway to include the platform and that was one we came across the kannel. Kannel is a compact and very powerful open source WAP and SMS gateway, used widely across the globe both for serving trillions of short messages (SMS), WAP Push service indications and mobile internet connectivity. ”
I am going to layout the steps that I have followed to install, configure, and run some real world scenarios:
Compiling and Installation:
To compile and install the latest version of kannel on ubuntu 10.04 LTS follow these steps:
