It was 15 years ago today, SMS taught the world to convey
by Russell Shaw
Quick thoughts, on the go…
I suppose there are rival claims, but today I just received a link to an article in U.K.-based Cellular-News noting that today the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992.
“The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, and in that year the first of many deals was signed with Telenor,” the unbylined article notes.
The article proceeds to note that:
Acision says that it has evolved the SMSC infrastructure from a basic ‘SMSC box’ to a complete next generation, IP-based SMS architecture, centred on Acision’s IP SMSC. This enables text management, a wide range of differentiating service scenarios and a single rack capacity of 16,000 messages per second that can grow to virtually unlimited levels.
SMSC innovation has never stopped, with current state of the art future-proof, IMS-enabled platforms that can help operators improve quality of service, reduce costs and offer exciting advanced messaging services. Its value today is as crucial to the market as ever before.
My what a long way we’ve come. The prototype SMSV V 1.0 had a 10 messages-per-second capacity.
And now, your typical teenager in the mall sends about 10 text messages an hour. Multiply that by millions of teens…
