ICTBroadcast is a mulit-tenant autodialer that can send thousands of voice messages, text messages, email, and fax simultaneously through campaigns. All this data is transmitted when Trunks is configured in ICTBroadcast. Kannel gateway and SMPP protocol are used in the trunk configuration. Following methods are used in ICTBroadcast there are two ways to configure trunks (Central and dedicated)

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What is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)?

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Configure Email Trunk in ICTBroadcast

Click on the administration main menu, then click on the gateways menu. A list of trunks and detail available on-page. Click on the edit button corresponding to the desired trunk to change trunk if required as shown:

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Add New Trunk in ICTBroadcast

Click on the New Trunk button, a trunk form will open with required fields such as:

Trunk

• Write trunk name in the text
• Select trunk type from drop list e.g (Outbound)
• Set status from drop list e.g (active)

Weight

Weight sets the priority of the trunk. Trunks will lower values will be preferred from others while doing route selection.

Node

Select [All Nodes] or [Main Server] from the nodes list, To provide access/authority of nodes by through data can be accessed

Technical Information

A select swift mailer from the gateway type list for SMS trunk

Outbound Configurations

Set CPS limit in the text box.
Max number of new calls which this trunk can accept within a specified interval
Set maximum channel capacity in the text box
CallerID/From Address:
Select callerID format from drop list e.g Custom CallerID
Select callerID title format from drop list e.g Custom CallerID Name

Trunk Configuration

Following are the sample Trunk configurations to set up an SMS gateway.

Settings

smsc = smpp host = hostname.com port = 9000 transceiver-mode = yes smsc-username = USERNAME
smsc-password = PASSWORD max-pending-submits = 10 system-type = VMA

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