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Mbuni: Open Source MMS Gateway

Status


Please see ETSI standard TS 123 140 (available from 3GPP website)

MM1: MMS Relay/Server - MMS User Agent

  • MMS Send to/Receive from client/handset: Fully implemented
  • Delivery/read reports: Fully implemented
  • MMS over HTTP: Some phones (such as Nokia 6600) transmit MMS over HTTP (skipping WAP stack). Because Mbuni is de-coupled from WAP gateway, works well in this case.
Tested successfully with at least the following MMS clients/handsets: Nokia 3650, 6600; Samsung X100, E700; SonyEricsson T300, 600 series; I-mate (PocketPC); OpenWave SDK emulator

MM3: MMS Relay/Server - External Servers

  • MMS-to-email and Email-to-MMS fully implemented
  • No generalised interface provided beyond the above at this stage
MMS-to-email passes the Yahoo! Mail test, as well as various email readers (Apple Mail, Outlook, etc)

MM4: Interworking of different MMS Gateways

  • Inter-gateway message exchange implemented via SMTP
  • Number prefix-based routing as default
  • Plug-in interface for generalised routing

MM6: MMS Relay/Server - MMS User Database

  • Can be configured to communicate with external user database via a set of scripts specified in config file
  • Control of subscriber provisioning status, notification status supported through script
  • Generalised mechanism for determining what numbers (MSISDNs) are local and which ones foreign, based on plug-in

MM7: MMS Relay/Server - MMS VAS Applications

  • SOAP and EAIF implementation.

MM8: MMS Relay/Server - Billing System

  • Supports billing and CDR generation through generic interface to a billing API (dynamically loadable module)
Reference points MM2 is irrelevant as the gateway acts as Relay/Server, and nothing is planned for reference point MM5.

Support for persistent message store (MMBox as defined in v1.2 of the OMA MMS spec.) is implemented.

As of version 1.1.0, Mbuni also acts as MMS VAS Applications Gateway (i.e. an application talking to the MMSC on the MM7 interface)