Could i use cisco ip-phone to send SMS?

[akcmak.ogcio]

Dear all,

could i use cisco ip-phone to send SMS (my model is 7970)?

If yes, how can i do this?

Thank you very much for any help.

[stephan.steiner]

Yes you can. Basically you need a standard application that allows text input - though there's a catch that a free text input field can only contain 32 characters, so you need to have multiple input fields for longer texts. Or you could have pre-written texts that the user would select from a selection menu.

Then you also need an SMS gateway in your network, where your application can send the message to. Depending on the gateway, there might be different ways of communicating with that gateway so you have to consult the developer documentation of the product you're using.

There's one more alternative: using an existing webpage to send the SMS. You can create an IPSS wrapper for an existing website where you can send SMS from, then send the user input to that site, which then transmits the SMS message.

[akcmak.ogcio]

Thanks very much for your guide.

Now i have got a sms gateway in my network. However, to communicate with this gateway, a developed java class program should be run first.

can i use call manager to run this java program?

is it implement it in asp? if yes, by how?

Thanks again.

[cipletsupport]

As Stephan explained - all you need to do is interface with an SMS Gateway. There's many ways to do this and one way I've done this in the past has been to use a phone service to read and write from a database and have database triggers work with a gateway to send and receive SMS messages.

I think this would be excellent functionality for us to build right into our Ciplets phone service development environment so watch that space. Thanks for the suggestion!

[stephan.steiner]

You need to create an IP Phone service where the user can create their message and enter a recipient / select one from a list. That service would then launch your java program to send the email.

If you're familiar with java, I'd suggest you use JSP for your service, as you can continue using JAVA, and perhaps you have a java class that you can include into the jsp project to send the SMS, rather than having to launch an executable, where you have less control over the outcome. If you're into ASP, you need to study the language reference (JavaScript or VBScript, depending on what you use) and figure out how to execute your java program after getting all the data required for your SMS. For examples of ASP (Javascript) or JSP IP Phone Services, check out the IP Phone Services SDK @ http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/dev_support/access_level/product_support (needs a free CCO login).

[cipletsupport]

We're adding SMS sending capability to Ciplets for the next release using SMPP and whilst registering with an SMS Gateway provider (Clickatell) I see that they also allow you to send SMS messages using HTTP.

Hence you could use Ciplets web scraping capability to send SMS - the type of URL you'd use is:

http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg?api_id=xxxx&user=xxxx&password=xxxx&to=xxxx&text=xxxx

This might be worth looking into trying as an alternative because it is trivial to use in Ciplets or in whatever programming environment you want to use. I'm sure others provide similar but we'll be testing with www.clickatell.com

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