With more than one trillion short messages sent annually, SMS is the most widely used mobile messaging format in the world, and forecasts clearly show it is likely to remain so in the near future.

By expanding beyond simple person-to-person text messaging to mobile-to-application and application-to-application services, today's global SMS market generates tens of billions a year for the mobile industry, and is one of the largest revenue contributors, topping 10% of the total ARPU for some operators.

Unfortunately, as a result of the limitations caused by the existing GSM network architecture, and bilateral interworking agreement model, operator are confronted to the challenge to introduce innovative messaging solutions offering flexible message-handling and routing capabilities or advanced functionality such as real-time fraud and threat control, or messaging interworking between telephony and IT environments.

AerVox Messaging offer (SMSX, SMS-Firewall, etc.) is an innovative, modular approach, enabling operators to deliver advanced messaging without costly network over-engineering or overhaul. The Messaging product family offers operators ways to reduce capital expenses, and rationalize operations while adding services to provide subscribers with instant access to essential information.

AerVox Messaging solutions ar developed on the basis of its unique common-shared Service Delivery Platform. Based on open industry standards, Xphere-3G offers a convergent carrier-grade environment, where reliability, scalability, performance and time to market become truly the essentials in the service delivery. Xphere-3G is designed for a rapid deployment and efficient execution of any combination of value-added solutions, and to enable those solutions to interoperate with different network technologies and equipment manufacturers.

		SMSX - GSMA-compliant SMS Hub GSM Association (GSMA) compliant SMS Hub solution meant to enhance the operators inter-working offer by allowing them to quickly and inexpensively provide seamless transmission of SMS across operators worldwide.
		SMS FIREWALL Complete protection against a wide variety of SMS content layer and network layer threats. Whereas content-protection shields subscribers from abuses such as denial-of-service attacks, flooding and unsolicited contents, network-protection secures the operators from fake and spoof fraud scenarios as identified by the GSMA’s IR.70, IR.71 and AA.50 SMS SS7 Fraud documents.
		SMS VIA HOME Solves the SM limitations associated to the combined inter-working and roaming scenarios. By reshaping the SM mobile terminated message flow, this solution allows all the SM signalling traffic to go through the subscriber’s Home network, regardless of the subscriber location.
		SMS WAY Provides low-latency real-time complex intelligent routing, protocol conversion, load balance and flow control capabilities to handle the SMS traffic travelling through the operators’ network.