Short Message service center
Network element in the mobile telephone network / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Short Message Service Center (SMSC) is a network element in the mobile telephone network. Its purpose is to store, forward, convert and deliver Short Message Service (SMS) messages.
"SMS-C" redirects here. For the weather satellite, see GOES-1.
The full designation of an SMSC according to 3GPP is Short Message Service - Service Center (SMS-SC).