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“The thought behind the 4 Series is everyone says that their machine is scalable, but ours is scalable at every point of the machine – messaging gateway or memory or interconnects,” said Damian Sazama, vice president of marketing and product development for Interop. “The way we designed it is that you are never scaling the whole system. You are scaling just the part of it that has reached capacity.”

A common practice of achieving scale for carriers has been to daisy-chain SMSCs together for the highest throughput. Interop’s platform works with other platforms by sharing the load side-by-side, however, at 36,000 messages per second. The hope is that the system can eventually replace other platforms on its own.

Moving from SMS to mobile data, Qualcomm gained further momentum for its Gobi laptop module technology announcing that AT&T has certified both Panasonic and HP notebooks for its networks for use on its network, clearing the way for the first launch of the multi-mode data technology in the US. Gobi uses Qualcomm’s MD1000 chip and a programmable baseband modem that can be configured on the fly to support HSPA, EV-DO or any 2.5G data technology by simply drawing a software profile from the computer’s hard drive.