What is PageGate

PageGate is a sophisticated wireless messaging (paging) application. The heart of the application is a high throughput paging engine that has the ability to support multiple dialers (modems), direct cable connections, and internet connections for message delivery.

PageGate supports several front-end interfaces (gateways) that can be used individually or in conjunction with each other. This allows PageGate to receive messages from many sources, and deliver the messages to wireless messaging devices (including alphanumeric pagers, numeric pagers, mobile phones, PIMs, etc.) The front-end interfaces include:

PageGate GUI Client - a GUI (Graphical User Interface) windows client that enables an entire network to send messages from its Windows based workstations.

Commandline/Ascii interface - enables many 'off the shelf' and custom applications to send messages to PageGate. This is also the choice interface for many integrators that need wireless messaging functionality.

Email gateway interface - enables email messages to be accepted by PageGate. This interface includes the capabilities of a full functional SMTP/POP3 mail server.

CGI web interface - allows messages to be sent directly from web pages to PageGate

Serial port interface - enables PageGate extract data from an incoming stream of data over a serial port.

TAP interface - enables PageGate to accept incoming messages via modem (or direct connection) by way of the TAP paging protocol.

PageGate supports several Protocols for message delivery:

TAP - Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol - the most widely used protocol by carriers for dialup modem message delivery.

UCP - Universal Computer Protocol - another widely used dialup protocol

TONE - DTMF (Touch Tone) message delivery for numeric pagers

GSM - Support for direct message delivery to a GSM modem or phone via a serial connection

SNPP - Simple Network Paging Protocol - a new internet based paging protocol that is being adopted by many carriers

SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol - a protocol designed for email, but used by many carriers to accept messages over the internet.

WCTP - Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol - another new internet based paging protocol that is being adopted by many carriers

PageGate's modularity (PageGate's modules can be run across several separate machines), scalability (direct cable connection and support for multiple dialers), multiple front-end interfaces, and high-end features (group paging, scheduled pages, repeating pages, on-call groups, ad-hoc paging, etc.), and multiple delivery protocols makes it a perfect solution for most wireless messaging needs.