What are the best practices for building an SMS server

Question

I am trying to build a system in which I have terminal nodes capable of sending/receiving SMS messages over a GSM network. I now need to construct a server solution which wo

Answer 1

I use smstools package in Linux to receive, parse SMS messages. In the configuration file, you point to an external script which receives 2 arguments (e.g. RECEIVED path-to-sms-file). I parse the SMSs using perl. Other option is Alamo SMS gateway, but I had many issues with it.