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Kannel - SMS and WAP gateway

Kannel functions as an SMS (Short Message Service) gateway and as a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) gateway. The functions are independent, and can be used separately or both at once.

When used as an SMS gateway, Kannel can receive messages from one or more SMS centers and convert them into HTTP requests. It also has an HTTP interface for sending messages back to the SMS centers, and it can send text responses directly from a configuration file. Kannel supports the following SMS center protocols:

CIMD 1.3 and CIMD 2.0 over IP
SMPP 3.3 over IP
UCP/EMI 2.0 over IP and serial
SEMA SMS2000 OIS 4.0 and 5.0 over Radiopad and X.25

Kannel can also exchange messages with a mobile phone or GSM modem, in effect using it as an SMS center.

When used as a WAP gateway, Kannel functions as described in the http://www.wapforum.org (WAP Forum) specifications, except that not all mandatory features of the WAP 1.1 conformance release have been implemented yet. Currently it supports:

WSP: connection oriented and connectionless modes.
WTP: class 0 and 2.
WDP: UDP bearer (GSM datacalls and GPRS).
WML and WMLScript compilers.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.kannel.3glab.org/
Source tarball	http://www.kannel.3glab.org/download/1.2.1/gateway-1.2.1.tar.gz

Version 1.2.1 (stable) released on 2002-11-02

Version 1.3.1 (devel) released on 2003-02-17

Licensed under BSDAdClause.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User intro and reference included; Programmer introduction included

Support contacts

Announce List	<announce@kannel.3glab.org> <announce-subscribe@kannel.org>
Help List	<users@kannel.3glab.org> <users-subscribe@kannel.org>
Developer List	<devel@kannel.3glab.org> <devel-subscribe@kannel.org>
Bug List	<devel@kannel.3glab.org> <devel-subscribe@kannel.org>

Project contacts

Developers	Lars Wirzenius Kalle Marjola Peter Groumlnholm Aarno Syvaumlnen Tuomas Luttinen Richard Braakman Yann Muller Paul Keogh (see for details)
Contributors	Kean-Leong Ang Taneli Leppä Joerg Pommnitz Derry Hamilton Mikael Gueck Sanna Seppänen Markku Rossi Hao Shi Andreas Fink Aarno Syvnen Stipe Tolj (see for details)

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@cvs.kannel.org:/home/cvs gateway
Interfaces	daemon, web
Programs	bearerbox, wapbox, smsbox
Source languages	C
Use requirements	libxml 2.4.0 or higher
Build prerequisites	libxml 2.4.0, docbook, GNU make

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-12-21
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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