Kylix SMS Server User Manual 2.5

General

• In the info-era while networking technology takes the lead, many software products have integrated high-efficient communication modes, among which the most frequently used are Email and instant communication software (ICQ etc.) Email is comparatively easy to be integrated into your software products, but it has some defects, such as lag-behind sending, easy to lose, virus and spam mails, which will hugely increase the maintenance time and cost of the whole system. As a newly emerging communication solution in recent year, the instant communication software is able to send message timely to others, which solved many problems that existed with Email. But in the meantime it relies on hardware like PC or PDA, and can’t exist without PC or PDA. On the other hand, our generally used instant communication software are huge in number but lack of uniform standard, for each of them is an independent system, and hard to be integrated into your software products.

• SMS is a very effective communication mode, which enables more quick, direct and inexpensive interconnection for people. With the unceasing development of the mobile communication technology, the per capita mobile phone possession rate is already very high, and the hardware is not a problem any more. SMS enable people to communicate with each other anytime at any place, make itself the favorite communication means for many people. In light of this, many companies hope to incorporate this most effective communication mode into their software products. But you may find yourself in front of a bunch of problems when you are ready to upgrade your system, which includes: A large amount of modification to your original software, the choosing of right hardware equipment, facing unfamiliar development of hardware application, complicated protocols and numerous instructions, which costs you huge amount of time and money to finish these work, and sometimes you have to drop this most effective communication tool. Through our investigation into the customers using related products, we find many companies are expecting a quick, simple and inexpensive way to use SMS in their software products, and this is the very reason why we come up with this software.

• Kylix SMS Server is a SMS serving software specially designed to add SMS functions to other software products. With this software, you can easily incorporate the SMS functions into your software. There is absolutely no need for you to understand the principal of SMS, the development of SMS hardware equipment, the complicated AT command set and protocols, the encoding rules of PDU and Unicode, the similarity and difference of every model of hardware equipment, your original software structure (whether B/S or C/S), the development environment of your original software (whether Java, PHP, VC or Delphi), and the operating system of your server (whether Windows or Linux). All you need to do is install Kylix SMS Server onto your software system, connect a GSM device to a serial port of your PC that can attach the database, and run this software after configuring several simple parameters. It only costs you 10 minutes to supply your software with SMS-based communication functions, which will make your whole system communicate in a more quick and effective way, thus add a shining point to your software products.

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