Editing Short Message Peer-to-Peer (section)

==History==
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SMPP (Short Message Peer-to-Peer) was originally designed by [[Aldiscon]], a small [[Ireland|Irish]] company that was later acquired by [[Logica]] (since 2016, after a number of changes [[Mavenir]]).  The protocol was originally created by a developer, Ian J Chambers, to test the functionality of the [[short message service center|SMSC]] without using SS7 test equipment to submit messages.

In 1995 the [[ETSI]] included the SMPP protocol into the technical report TR 03.39.<ref>{{cite book |author=Friedhelm Hillebrand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPgfNaoYHUsC |title=Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Global Text Messaging |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-470-68865-6 |page=112}}</ref>

In 1999 Logica formally handed over SMPP to the SMPP Developers Forum, later renamed as The SMS Forum.

The SMS Forum disbanded in 2007, with this announcement: "The SMS Forum, a non-profit organization with a mission to develop, foster and promote SMS (short message service) to the benefit of the global wireless industry will disband by July 27, 2007."<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=SMS Forum Homepage |url=http://smsforum.net/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222221600/http://smsforum.net/ |archive-date=2007-12-22 |access-date= |website=smsforum.net}}</ref>  As part of the original handover terms, SMPP ownership returned to Mavenir.