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On Tuesday 16th February we’re going to install new firewalls in our Manchester data centre. While we do the work we’ll be operating all services through our Derby site and turn off Manchester.
This work follows on from our network upgrades in Derby last week and will bring our network fully up-to-date. continue reading Further network upgrades
With a new website and rebranded products, 2010 is proving to be a busy year so far. But let’s not stop there.
Next in line is Outlook Mobile Service. continue reading Outlook Mobile Service is ready for 2010
On Tuesday 9th February we’re going to install new firewalls in our Derby data centre. For a short period of time we will turn off Derby and operate all services through our Manchester site.
While Derby is turned off we’ll also be upgrading our network and servers to make sure we offer you the best service possible.
As a standard SMS can only contain 160 7-bit GSM characters, Concatenated SMS are used to send long SMS. Concatenation allows a sender to send more than one SMS which then get stuck together automatically by the phone to appear as one message.
continue reading Concatenated SMS
One of the issues that we continually see appearing is the question of which characters can be sent in a text message. What follows is a brief description of the format of a text message
continue reading The GSM character set
We’ve now ordered our new firewalls, we’ve gone with a pair of Cisco ASA5510s for the data centres and an ASA5505 for our office. We chose the Cisco firewalls for a few reasons I’ll explain below.
continue reading Progress with Firewalls
We have now enabled each of our non-billed SMS routes to support the delivery receipt error codes that were previously only on our premium rate (reverse billed) SMS.
continue reading API Delivery Receipt Error codes
This is a follow on to our post on Perl module config files
continue reading Creating Perl module RPMs
The SMPP interface is now available on the new platform for sending SMS. At the moment delivery receipts are available over HTTP rather than SMPP.
By default, the encoding is set to UTF-8, but it also supports Latin-1, UCS2 (Unicode), or GSM encodings.
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We currently use Cisco PIX firewalls in both our data centres and office, we haven’t really had any problems with these but asCisco stopped providing software maintenance at the end of July now seems a good time to replace them. continue reading Firewalls
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