November 2008

Xichlo International needed to implement a new SMS Gateway in Scandinavia to support their increasing message volumes and after comparing different solutions in the market, Selenium SMS with Selenium SMPP access was chosen as the best choice to fit Xichlo International's requirements and expectations for future operations.

Xichlo International provides a SMS Gateway service for their customers world-wide. With more than 10 years of experience within the mobile industry and more than ¼ billion delivered messages in 2007 Xichlo International has been proven to have a direct positive impact on their customers' competitiveness by minimizing message costs, increased network coverage and their quality of service. Customers and partners include major industry players and innovators who benefit from Xichlo International's high quality, reliable and full functionality connections to more than 550 mobile operators, 200 countries and 3 billion GSM mobile subscribers.

September 2008

Selenium SMS release 2.9.0 is a significant new release of our highly versatile, programmable text messaging server. The features that this release introduces are described below. The full product documentation set is available for download from the Selenium SMS page of this site.

User developed SMSC connector components

You can now develop your own SMSC connector components using Java and plug them into Selenium SMS using the new SMSC Connection Framework. Full Java source code for a working example is provided.

Message Queue Persistence

To safeguard against message loss in the event of a major system failure, you can now configure selected outbound message queue to write messages to hard disk. With queue persistence enabled, as messages are added to the in memory queue (on receipt from a client application), they are also written to either the file system or to a database. Once processed, as a message is removed from the in-memory queue, it is also deleted from the message store. In the event that you need to restart the system, any messages found in the store are automatically recovered and reloaded into the appropriate in-memory queues.

Not all customers need this feature. Selenium SMS has always had mechanisms for dealing with this issue (status updates, audit trail and so on) and users of the database interface automatically benefit from having a persisted record of their messages. But in certain configurations, the new capability is very beneficial, particularly for those customers that use Selenium SMPP Access in conjunction with Selenium SMS.

Enhanced Billing and Auditing Support

The audit logging system has had a complete overhaul. It is now possible to enable logging of any combination of the 7 distinct message handling event types that are defined. Records logged include all key message attributes, designed specifically with billing in mind. Audit log file management has also been improved. Files will now automatically rollover into a specified directory when they either contain a specified number of records or after a specified amount of time has passed. Billing applications can then pick up these closed files and import them for processing. A command line tool is also provided to allow human readable reports on the contents of these files to be produced.

Configurable HTTP based SMS connector for receiving MO messages

Selenium SMS already has a highly configurable SMS connector which uses HTTP to submit MT messages to the SMS aggregator. Now there's also a similarly versatile connector for receiving MO messages and delivery receipts over HTTP.

August 2008

SMPP Access has been selected by bulksms4less.

About their selection, Hilal Kanafani, General Manager said "We selected Selenium Software and their product because they were one of the few companies who provided a product spec that satisfied all of our requirements. Our current developers have also had experience with Selenium Software in the past and they came highly recommended".

June 2008

SMPP Access 1.3 has been released. New features in this release are as follows:

1. It is no longer necessary to specify an implementation of all types of Integrator. SMPP Access will substitute a default integrator if none of a particular type is explicitly specified in the configuration. The user guide has full details.

2. In the absence of a custom AccessController implementation, SMPP Access will now reject all BIND_* requests.

3. UnbindEventHandler added to the integrator interfaces. This makes it possible for the fact that an SMPP session has closed due to an SMPP UNBIND command having been processed, to be notified to an interested application.

4. DisconnectEventHandler added to the integrator interfaces. This makes it possible for the fact that an SMPP session has ended due to a client disconnecting at a TCP/IP level (or being forcibly disconnected by SMPP Access) instead of through the client issuing a SMPP UNBIND command, to be notified to an interested application.

5. The log message written when there is an IOException due to a client disconnecting without issuing an UNBIND first, has been downgraded from WARNING level to INFO.

India's Cosmic Information and Technology Ltd selected Selenium SMPP Access to speed their introduction of an SMPP interface to their SMS services.

October 2007

Selenium SMS 2.8.0 is now available. Details of the changes in this release are documented in the Release History document.

Principal amongst the new features is Custom Logic Containers (CLCs). With CLCs you can incorporate your own, custom logic at key points within the standard message processing lifecycle. This logic is implemented in the popular scripting language Javascript, making it very easy to use. Example applications include adding further validation over and above the standard product validation of messages, augmenting message objects by deriving additional attributes, over-riding message attributes with your own standard values and performing advanced routing tasks such as message cloning or re-routing. With message cloning, you can cause a message to be duplicated and be submitted via an alternate route. With message re-routing, you can respond to a failed message submission event by re-routing the message via a different route. And you can do much more... it's a programmable feature after all, so you have maximum flexibility.

CLC scripts are managed via the Selenium CP web interface too. You can view them, validate them and upload changes, all from the same standard interface used for other Selenium SMS management functions and information.

September 2007

Selenium SMPP Access 1.2.0 is now available. The key new feature in this release is "deferred delivery". See the the release history document for details.

The product has also just been selected by a large, NASDAQ listed software company. The use they're putting it to is currently highly confidential, so we're not allowed to say who they are. Needless to say, we're very excited about this latest new customer.

July 2007

OTair in Virginia, USA have become the latest customer to select Selenium SMS.

April 2007

UK based mobile telecommunications business Stream SMS selected Selenium SMPP Access as the fast and cost effective way to add an SMPP interface to their messaging services.

SMPPSim release 2.3.0 is now available. Changes in this release are:

1. It is now possible to supply vendor specific optional TLV parameters in the MO injection form.

2. The input file to the MO service can now include binary messages. See the section on the MO service below for details.

Telecoms solutions provider Unicel Technologies have selected Selenium SMPP Access for use with their advanced messaging solutions.

March 2007

UK based mBanking solution provider, Jethro Ltd have selected Selenium SMS. Their mBanking solution allows common banking transactions to be invoked using standard SMS text messages. Jethro Ltd needed a solution which was reliable and easy to integrate with their mBanking solution. Selenium SMS is well proven in the field and has an extensive set of APIs, and integration was achieved in less than one day.

Selenium SMS 2.7.0 released. This release introduces the ability to manage Selenium SMPP Access from your Selenium CP control panel. So customers that use both Selenium SMS and Selenium SMPP Access can manage both servers from one place.

Selenium SMPP Access 1.1.0 released. Key changes include the ability to limit the number of sessions any one account can establish. In addition to this, a new "black list" facility has been introduced, which allows accounts to be temporarily disconnected and prevented from reconnecting. This facility and other are available via a new command line tool, sa_tool. Finally, various improvements have been made to the Integrator API. Full details can be found in the Release History.

January 2007

Selenium SMS 2.6.5 released. One of the Key architectural features of Selenium SMS is that of the "SMS Connector". An SMS Connector is a software component that allows messages to be submitted and/or received to/from an SMS service provider using some protocol. In this release, two new SMS connectors are made available. The first allows messages to be sent via the Esendex network and the second is a highly configurable HTTP based component which allows Selenium SMS API variables to be mapped to HTTP parameters easily, using the Selenium SMS XML based parameter substitution expressions. See the Selenium SMS architecture diagram.

To help operations staff keep an eye on how their SMSC connections are performing, we've also added network latency graphs to Selenium CP. This allows you to see what

November 2006

Florian Bruch Netservice-Agentur are the first company to select our newest product, Selenium SMPP Access. Using the product in conjunction with Selenium SMS, Florian Bruch Netservice-Agentur customers are now able to use SMPP to send and receive their text messages.

October 2006

Selenium Software are proud to announce the availability of new product Selenium SMPP Access. SMS service providers such as aggregators can now add an SMPP interface to their existing messaging, authentication and accounting platform and give customers the choice of SMPP.

October is a big month for Selenium Software. In addition to launching a new product, Selenium SMS version 2.5 is also available. Highlights of this release include compatibility with Selenium SMPP Access, major improvements to routeing facilities and some important architectural changes that make the platform even more powerful. See the Products page for more information about both of these products.

September 2006

SMPPSim version 2.2.2 available now

SMPPSim version 2.2.2 is a bug fix release that addresses a number of minor issues. Users of SMPPSim are advised to upgrade to this version.

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June 2006

Selenium SMS version 2.4.0 available now

On 20th June 2006, version 2.4.0 of Selenium SMS, the text messaging server, was released. This release adds the ability to utilise "account profiles" and run with authentication, authorisation and accounting features enabled or disabled, according to your needs.

Read more about Selenium SMS in our brochure and more about Selenium MC in particular, here

May 2006

Florian Bruch Netservice-Agentur selects Selenium SMS

Berlin based SMS aggregator, Florian Bruch Netservice-Agentur are the latest customer to select Selenium SMS to form the heart of their text messaging services.

http://www.florianbruch.com

SMPPSim version 2.2.1 released

The latest version of popular, Java based SMPP testing tool, SMPPSim from Selenium Software is available for download now.

Version 2.2 has a number of excellent new features. The best place to read about them is in the Release Notes section at the top of the User Guide