PAGING SYSTEMS - NETWORK ARCHITECTURES AND INTERFACES

In the past few years, the penetration rate of paging service has sign ificantly increased. Paging service is competitive because paging netw orks offer inexpensive service in large service coverage areas, and pa gers are cheap and easy to carry. This article provides an overview of the one-way paging network architecture and the interfaces among the paging network elements. The author also briefly describes two-way pag ing services and uses GSM short message service as an example to illus trate how two-way messaging can be offered under the cellular platform .