VGSM Software Features

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The vGSM family of cards are supported under an extensive software framework comprised of low-level drivers, kernel-space middleware, user-space tools and an Asterisk's channel driver.

• Linux 2.6.9 to 2.6.23 drivers based on kstreamer, provide low-level access to hardware features
• Asterisk 1.2 and 1.4 channel driver provides wide access to the card's features
• Comprehensive access to debugging and troubleshooting data via Asterisk's CLI:
  • Network registration status
  • Registered and adjacent cell identifications, reception levels, quality, etc..
  • SIM informations (ID, IMSI, PLMN selector, etc...)
  • Call forwarding supplementary service status
  • Call waiting supplementary service status
  • Call status
  • Call statistics
• Control of modules via Asterisk's CLI:
  • Power-on, power-off, emergency power-off, reset

• SMS submission and delivery implemented under Asterisk's channel driver.
• SMS-SUBMIT available through Asterisk's Manager interface
• SMS-DELIVER, SMS-STATUS-REPORT and CBM-DELIVER primitives are piped to an external spooler application
• Support for ASCII, GSM and UTF-8 encoding
• Hex, base-64 and quoted-printable transfer encoding
• Direct delivery to the spooler without saving to the SIM (Phase 2+)
• Access to several SMS parameters such as:
  • Service-centre selection
  • status report request
  • reply path
  • message reference
  • validity period
  • UIDL message concatenation
• Automatic transcoding of received messages to UTF-8
• Error codes available to the client