What is SMPP Protocol?
The SMPP (Short Message Peer-to-Peer) protocol is a communication protocol for the exchange of SMS (Short Message Service) messages between an SMS Center (SMSC) and an SMS Application Service Provider (ASP) or other gateways SMS. SMPP is widely used in the telecommunications industry to provide SMS messaging services to mobile devices.
SMPP Operations Window in Wireshark
Wireshark is a packet sniffing and analysis tool. It captures network traffic on the local network and stores this data for offline analysis. Wireshark captures network traffic from various sources such as Ethernet, Bluetooth, wireless, etc. In this guide, we use Wireshark to trace SMPP traffic.