What Is Multimedia Messaging Service ?

mss technology

The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), is intended to provide a rich set of content to subscribers (pictures, audio, games, etc). It supports both sending and receiving of rich content by properly enabled client devices. MMS is a non-real-time delivery service, much like SMS or email. The service utilises a store-and-forward usage model.
MMS is designed to be transported largely over IP rather than traditional GSM (SS7) networks. It is also designed to interoperate with other IP services such as email and WAP. In fact, MMS messages are typically transported over WAP, and are encoded using WAP MIME formats.
Multimedia messages can be originated by or terminate to end-user client devices (i.e. MMS-enabled phones) or third party applications (typically used by MMS content providers). In the MMS architecture, the MMSC acts as the message-switching system within the core network, while the MMSBox acts as the message dispatch and content management system on the VAS (third party) side.

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