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Telecom
SMS gateways, IPTV and high-throughput messaging from the early part of my career.
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TelecomSMSscaleKannel
How We Sent 40 Million SMS Messages for a Political Campaign
In 2009, a major regional political party wanted to send campaign messages to 4 crore voters across Andhra Pradesh: multiple times. Here's the infrastructure we built to make it happen, and what nearly broke us.
20 Apr 2010 · 2 min read
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TelecomIPTVTCSC
The Developer's Guide to IPTV: What I Learned at TCS
IPTV in 2008 was engineering at the intersection of telecoms, media, and software. My stint at TCS's IPTV Centre of Excellence was a masterclass in the complexity of real-time media delivery at scale.
1 Sept 2009 · 2 min read
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TelecomKannelSMSopen-source
Kannel: The Open Source SMS Gateway That Could
At Airhub in Hyderabad, I ran our bulk SMS infrastructure on Kannel: a C-based open source gateway that could handle extraordinary throughput on modest hardware. Here's what made it exceptional.
15 Jun 2009 · 2 min read
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