SMPP (Short Message Peer-to-Peer) is the standard protocol used by telecommunications industry to communicate between External Short Messaging Entities (ESMEs), Routing Entities (Res) and Short Message Service Centers (SMCs). Precise Communications SMPP gateway supports SMPP versions 3.3, 3.4 and the latest version 5.0, that can provide you multiple binds supporting up to 50 TPS for each binds.SMS peering, EMS, voicemail notifications, Cell broadcasts, WAP messages and USSD are some of the features that are supported by the single SMPP connectivity. SMPP is preferred on top of SS7 connectivity due to its flexibility in routing mechanism, getting real time delivery reports and inter operator deliverability