CanVAS® SMSC™
CanVAS SMSC offers a smooth evolution to Multimedia Messaging to deliver an enhanced user experience and an
exciting new generation of services that are informative, fun and entertaining.
Annual worldwide SMS traffic volumes are expected to surpass 9.4 trillion messages by 2016 covering 50% of global
mobile messaging traffic. In this dynamic market place, CanVAS® SMSC, Short Message Service Center, is helping
wireless operators to address today’s exploding demand for person-to-person (P2P) and application-to-person
(A2P) messaging services.
CanVAS SMSC is a member of the CanVAS Messaging portfolio. It supports Mobile Originated (MO) and Mobile
Terminated (MT) messaging in GSM/GPRS, CDMA/1xRTT, iDEN and 3G networks and provides an SMS over IP
solution that efficiently offloads SMS traffic to an IP based network running in parallel to the SS7 network.
CanVAS SMSC is a high performance system processing thousands of messages per second today. It is the ideal choice for operators that want to maximize the return from their investment and increase the market leadership in premium services. CanVAS SMSC is designed with unlimited performance and scalability in mind and can be bundled with ready-to-deploy push-pull services such as ring tones and logo downloads.
2. CanVAS® SMSC™
CanVAS SMSC offers a smooth evolution to Multimedia Messaging to deliver an enhanced user experience and an
exciting new generation of services that are informative, fun and entertaining.
Annual worldwide SMS traffic volumes are expected to surpass 9.4 trillion messages by 2016 covering 50% of global
mobile messaging traffic. In this dynamic market place, CanVAS® SMSC, Short Message Service Center, is helping
wireless operators to address today’s exploding demand for person-to-person (P2P) and application-to-person
(A2P) messaging services.
CanVAS SMSC is a member of the CanVAS Messaging portfolio. It supports Mobile Originated (MO) and Mobile
Terminated (MT) messaging in GSM/GPRS, CDMA/1xRTT, iDEN and 3G networks and provides an SMS over IP
solution that efficiently offloads SMS traffic to an IP based network running in parallel to the SS7 network.
CanVAS SMSC is a high performance system
processing thousands of messages per second
today. It is the ideal choice for operators that want
to maximize the return from their investment
and increase the market leadership in premium
services. CanVAS SMSC is designed with unlimited
performance and scalability in mind and can be
bundled with ready-to-deploy push-pull services
such as ring tones and logo downloads.
3. Benefits
High performance system processing thousands of messages per second today. It is the ideal choice for operators
that want to maximize the return from their investment and increase the market leadership in premium services.
Designed with unlimited performance and scalability in mind and can be bundled with ready-to-deploy push-pull
services such as ring tones and logo downloads.
Price/Performance combination enables wireless operators to start with a small system, reducing operational costs,
and grow to a larger capacity as SMS revenues increase with advanced services such as SMS Forwarding.
Modular design that allows pre-packaging approach with flexible feature selection and deployment options for
Premium SMS services.
Seamless and effective migration of services to IP is supported based on the SIGTRAN standards, providing a
mechanism to transport SS7 traffic over an IP network. The next generation, IP-based architecture of CanVAS SMSC
provides geographical distribution of multiple SMSC clusters behind a single SMSC address, therefore allowing
operators to optimize their link distribution over multiple geographical sites.
4. Product Overview
CanVAS SMSC has a next generation messaging architecture powered by a market-leading technology and is suitable
to fulfill the emerging industry trends, such as the migration to all-IP networks. Several breakthrough technologies
allow the CanVAS SMSC to provide the most cost efficient messaging services with the highest performance available
in the market today. This is also coupled with linear performance scalability for unlimited capacity growth and
reduced total cost of ownership.
CanVAS SMSC is a future-proof solution with a smooth migration path to next generation services, as well as, the
ability to provide legacy support.
Feature Summary
Optional Features
• Mobile Originated and Mobile Terminated
messaging
• First Delivery Attempt for high performance
messaging
• Unicode Multilanguage support
• Flexible retry mechanism
• Deferred delivery
• Message replacement and forwarding
• Message segmentation and concatenation
• Advanced SLA and QoS configuration support
• WAP Push, OTA push, Flash SMS support
• Prepaid and Postpaid charging
• SNMP for network management
• Bi-directional email gateway (SMS-to-Email and
Email-to-SMS)
• SMS Router
• SMS Forwarding support
• Foreign Subscriber Gateway
• Black and White Lists
• Out of office SMS
• Web based Subscriber Portal for self-provisioning
• Distribution Lists and Closed User Groups
• Spam Filtering, Anti-Flooding and Anti-Spoofing
• Bulk SMS
• Lawful Interception
• SMS Copy/Archive
• Premium Service Access Block
5. Architecture
CanVAS® SMSC™
Email Server
SMTP
Email
Gateway
Store & Forward Engine
VAS
SMPP
ESME
Application
Gateway
SS7 Gateway
Advertiser Bulk Messaging
Suite
CSCF
IMS
NETWORK
MSC
HLR
Subscriber
HSS
Msg Store
Signaling
Gateway
OA&M
GSM
CDMA
MOBILE
NETWORK
Subscriber
IP-SM
Gateway
CDR
Log - Trace
SIP
CanVAS SMSC is built around an advanced, flexible distributed and modular architecture that ensures interoperability
with third party networks and offers full support of GSM/GPRS, CDMA/1xRTT, iDEN and 3G/4G networks. Also it
provides a single point of access for content providers and VAS providers, simplifying third party service provisioning.
Interfaces
Core Platform Technology
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• IP, UDP
• Web Services, XML
• Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, JMX
GSM, CDMA, iDEN
GPRS, 1xRTT
SS7 over IP (SIGTRAN), SIP
SMPP, SMTP
Operating Environment
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Oracle Solaris