Advancing Peer-to-peer Short
Messaging towards Mobile IM

Published: February 2007
19
Pages
Author: Bob Morley

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Overview

Mobile operators have managed to maintain their legacy message delivery platforms, despite the advances that have been made in platform capabilities over recent years. Traditional “Store and Forward” SMS delivery platforms have managed to retain their place, chiefly because of their cost. Historically, operating costs of these platforms are high and could be easily replaced. This report is primarily targeted at mobile operators in order to provide some strategic views and observations on the possibilities available to them to interoperate between the existing Short Message Service and Instant Messaging.

Traditional telecoms messaging services will remain a dominant factor in mobile network development, but will be integrated further into new services that will emerge by the continued convergence opportunities of services. Advanced mobile IM functionality will make use of many of the features that are readily available on mobile networks to maximize service capabilities and provide the same functionality as exists for IM now.

Operators and vendors will find this publication useful as they make decisions about messaging technology direction, messaging functionality, and extension of instant messaging into mobile networks with a mind towards evolving existing messaging solutions to more advanced capabilities.

Applications and Functionality Discussed

  • Direct Delivery
  • SMS Gateway
  • Billing and Reporting
  • Presence Data
  • Delivery Rules Engine
  • Text Gateway

Sampling of Report Benefits

  • Provides operators and vendors insights into functionality and architecture direction of SMS and IM
  • Evaluates benefits of direct delivery vs. existing message delivery
  • Evaluates architecture and functionality for IM as an extended SMS application


Table of Contents

The Advance towards Mobile Instant Messaging. 3
The Existing Mobile Network Messaging Infrastructure. 3
Further Advances. 4
Wireless LAN Possibilities. 5
Short Message Interworking. 6
IM as an Extended SMS Application. 7
New Revenue Opportunities for the Operator 12
Market Share. 13
Anticipated Growth. 13
SMS/Mobile IM Infrastructure. 14
Advances in IM/SMS Functionality. 17
Conclusions
Table of Figures

Figure One: Direct Delivery System
Figure Two: Short Message Delivery Options
Figure Three: Short Message Inter-working
Figure Four: Extended Network Infrastructure
Figure Five: Conceptual Model – Messaging Advances



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