The Short Message Peer to Peer (SMPP) protocol is an open, industry standard protocol designed to provide a flexible
data communications interface to transfer short messages between the Message Center and a SMS application system.
Examples of Message Center are Short Message Service Centro (SMSC), GSM Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) Server .
Examples of SMS application system are WAP Proxy Server, Email Gateway or other Messaging Gateway.
The AntHill SMPP (Cpp,Ruby)
project is a powerful networking library that implements SMPP protocol (v 3.4 & v 5.0) and supply different fail-over and scaling
functionality. It is based on AntHill library. The library contains SMPP Encoder and Decoder as well as other utilities like
SMPP DumpViewer, SMPP SMSCEmulator, SMPP Shell and etc.
Key features
- SMPP protocol support according to SMPP spec v3.4 and 5.0
- SMPP scaling and fail-overing algorithms
- Extensible architecture and API
- High performance and productivity
- Full tread-safe and STLPort is supported optionally
- Open Source and fully free for use and deploy
- Documentation, tutorials and code snippets free and easy accessible
- Commercial support is available
Officially supported platforms
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- Linux
- Open Solaris
Other features
More details are available in the AntHill SMPP Manual (PDF, ~300 KB).