Multimedia and Text Messaging have always been essential features for mobile users for work or to keep in contact with friends and relatives domestically and overseas and while roaming. Several recent trends have also shown how Messaging has more pervasive and important for daily usage in our society.
The rise in A2P messaging for 2-factor authentication (e.g., web login authentications, payment due notifications, airline notifications, iPhone activations, and more) has significantly increased the importance of A2P messaging for mobile network operators and their subscribers, alike.
Each year IoT devices continue to find more and more applications in niche opportunities to improve the lifestyles and productivity for home owners and office workers everywhere. The ubiquity of 3G and 4G coverage continues to make SMS an important part of IoT messaging with many types of devices. When mobile or IOT devices require updating, the SMSC receives an OTA bootstrap message, which is sent to the device to provide the device’s URL/IP Address to the OTA Server.
In addition to SMS-MO, MT and Inter-carrier processing, Primal Technologies has included a comprehensive set of additional features that wireless operators will find beneficial for the day-to-day operations of their business and for their subscribers:
- ▪ Simultaneous multi-network support (CDMA, GSM/UMTS, IMS, 5G) from an efficient NFV architecture
- ▪ Broadcast Management – Keep in touch with all or a subset of subscribers by SMS (VM and Out calling also)
- ▪ Delivery of OTA WAP messages to handsets
- ▪ Full Unicode / Emoji support
- ▪ SMS<-->Email interworking
- ▪ Group Messaging
- ▪ Short code routing and native interworking with Primal OCS for Balance Query, Transfer, Top-ups and other e-Money transactions via SMS
- ▪ SMS Forwarding
- ▪ Enhanced CALEA functionality
- ▪ Specialized functionality available for M2M/IOT Operators
- ▪ Native interworking with Primal Advance Pay/Prepaid/OCS (and Ro interworking with 3rd Party OCS)
- ▪ Branded Web-to-SMS
- ▪ Grafana KPI analytics and reporting
- ▪ Home Routing functionality (for non-North American operators)
- ▪ MNP Interworking
The Primal 5G SMSF is an important add-on for 5G Network Operators since a variety of SMS Services including P2P messaging, Shortcodes, OTA Bootstrap messages, Two-Factor Authentication, Amber Alerts, etc. will still be required by 5G subscriber devices.
For the 5G Standalone Network Operator with the Primal 5G SMSF, there will likely be a period of 5-10 years or perhaps longer when 5G Coverage is not ubiquitously available (domestically, roaming) so fallback to Primal IP-SM-GW (4G/IMS) or 2G/3G (Primal SMSC) will be required in order that SMS services mentioned above continue to work regardless of where the subscriber is currently located.
The Primal 5G SMSF supports 5G Core AMF and UDM Interconnectivity to meet 5G Standalone Network SMS Use Cases. The 5G SMSF also supports both IP-SM-GW to support SIP messaging between IMS users, while simultaneously supporting legacy 2G/3G networks, handsets and inter-carrier connections from an NFV or Cloud-Native architecture.