MMS delivery

Offloading tasks from the opeator MMSC

Relation Management
Black and white lists allow the administration of MMSC relations. This prevents the flow of unwanted traffic and halts spam attacks to the destination MMSC.

Store and forward
Normal operation of the MMS Hub is transparent (i.e. all received MMSs are forwarded to the destination MMSC, and the forward response is awaited from the destination.)
In store and forward the MMSs are pre-acknowledged. With this mechanism much of the MMSCs interoperability problems from different MMSC vendors can be solved. This is because the originating MMSC sends MMSs only to the MMS Hub and not to several MMSCs from different vendors.

Number portability
Multimedia messages are routed based on MSISDN, which in certain countries may have been subject to number portability. The MMS Hub queries the HLR of the number range holder to obtain the MCC and MNC of the serving operator and then delivers the message accordingly. Number portability resolution is supported by the Comfone Signalling service.

Throttling
In order to avoid overload situations in destination MMSCs, the Comfone MMS Hub has been set-up as a store & forward system with throttling. A throttling rate can be configured on the MMS Hub, inline with the input capacity of the recipient MMSC.

Content screening
MMS content screening can be activated for operators who do not want to deliver certain content or who want to be alarmed if the same content is sent multiple times (spam).