How a website sends SMS to a mobile phone

1.The SMS is composed by using a web application which is stored on HTTP server.
2.This application executes the requests on that server and then sent the request through the internet (“using the cloud”) as an email message.
3. The email is received by a Short Message Service Gateway [ SMS Gateway ] .  which then converts the message from an email message to a actual SMS message.
4. Now this SMS message is then handed over to a Short Message Service Center  [ SMSC ] , which is a server that routes the SMS to an individual mobile phone based on the mobile phone number.
5. The message is finally transmitted over the wireless network to the recipient.


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