SKIP

INTRO

SMSC

Product Management SMSC

BRAZIL CHINA IRELAND THE NETHERLANDS SINGAPORE USA

www.cmgtelecom.com

Overview of Sema Group

20200 employees in 140 Locations dealing with

SMSC

Telecoms
Public Sector
Services & Transport

Finance
Defence
Industry & Energy
Medical services

Primarily a consultancy organisation

Approx. 200 employees in Sema Telecoms
Have SMSC, IMD, USC, USSD
Currently restructuring as a product company

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Semas SMSC

Entry level :
1 Compaq Alpha System,
Claim 32 Delivery Attempts/sec
Medium level : 2 Compaq Alpha Systems,
Claim 28 to 75 Delivery Attempts/sec
High Performance System :
Claim up to 500 Delivery Attempts/sec
FEPs - 4 x Alpha 800
BEPs - 2 x Alpha ES40
Claim up to 500 Delivery Attempts/sec

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Reality

No STP, each deployment is a project

Each interface requires machine add on
HPS only achieving 150 to 250 Delivery Attempts/sec
Quote MAP messages to their customers !
Phase 2 messaging causes up to 40% performance impact !
Only part of the capacity can be used for Large Accounts (30 to
50%) !
No support for SNMP
Have had setbacks in dimensioning their machines to meet their
market announcements !

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Intelligent Messaging Device

Enables routing of messages between different systems

Message divert
Copy me messaging
Message escalation (fallback)
For MT messages only
Customer can configure routing from Web
Provides Loadsharing and failover for LAs

SMSC

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Unified Service Centre

SMSC

Improves availability of the SMS service

From the network side, provides
- Loadsharing
- Routing and load control
- Failover
New product with no live sites yet !

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Current Market Share by Subscriber

Base
Sema is more globally distributed then CMG.
CMG however dominates the market in performance.

SMSC

SEMA

Continental Europe
Eastern Europe
North America
Asia
South America

CMG
8%

14%
11%
12%
??

40%
23%
7%
5%
30%

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Overview of Comverse
3300 Employees in 35 locations World-wide.
Comverse is primarily known for Voice Value Added
Services

SMSC

The Comverse Group is composed of 5 Companies

Comverse Network Systems

Specialise in call answering, voice mail, voice

information services, interactive voice response,
message delivery, virtual phone, message notification,
integrated voice/fax/email unified messaging, voice
activated services, short message service, and web
information services.
Continued .

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Overview of Comverse cont..

Comverse Infosys

Call recording technology for Govt/Law enforcement,

correctional facilities and financial institutions.

Ulticom
Advanced Intelligent Network solutions

Startel Group

SMSC

Integrated call processing and messaging systems to

the telephone answering service market

Star*home
Advanced Intelligent Network services for Roaming
Subscribers.

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The Comverse SMSC

The Mobile Internet Division (MiND ) of Comverse Network
Systems is responsible for its SMSC

Claim to have installed over 170 systems in over 80

networks world-wide

SMSC

SMSC Features
MO/MT Messaging

Multiple Languages

Replace Message

Distribution Lists

Concatenated Message

Closed User Groups

Deferred Delivery

Local Time Zone

Priority Delivery

Black List

Delivery Notification

SIM Toolkit Support

Reachability Check

WAP Support

Intelligent Retry

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SMSC Features Continued.

GSMMAP Phases 1,2 and 2+

IS-41C IS136 for TDMA

IS-637 for CDMA including VMN, CPT (Cellular Paging

TeleService) and CMT (Cellular Messaging Service).

Entry Level system (1 - 36 SMS/sec)

High Performance system (up to 70 SMS/sec

*These figures are delivery attempts, actual performance may be much
lower in practice

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Comparison of pricing
SMSC Vendor Pricing

SMSC

CMG
High*
SEMA
Medium
Logica Aldiscon
Medium
Nokia
Medium**
Ericsson
Medium
Motorolla Medium
Comverse Low
ADC NewNet
Low***

* CMG up to 50% more expensive then SEMA\Logica\Nokia

** Nokia requires Nokia Infrastructure
*** ADC NewNet has the least expensive SMSC solution

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