# Iridium's SBD Direct-IP communications
Iridium's Direct-IP protocol of Short Burst Data communication system.
This library understands and handles the Direct-IP protocol, thus providing
the core support for applications such as the one listed below.
## Applications
- [directip-client](https://crates.io/crates/directip-client): Compose and
transmit MT messages, i.e. to remote station. For instance, it could be
used to send a message to an underwater glider (a scientific autonomous
robot).
- [directip-dump](https://crates.io/crates/directip-dump): Parse and extract
components, such as the IMEI or message-id, from a Direct-IP binary
transmission. This is an equivalent to ncdump but for Direct-IP messages.
## Minimum supported Rust version
Currently the minimum supported Rust version is 1.64.0
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0
([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license
([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
## Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
## Alternatives
* [sbd-rs](https://crates.io/crates/sbd): Handles the Mobile-Originated side
of the SBD protocol and provides a server to listen for incoming MO messages
. It was visionary to use Rust in 2015! (@gadomski, 2015)
* [sbd_lib](https://crates.io/crates/sbd_lib): I believe it contains some
elements of the sbd-rs crate, extending to MT messages while using serde
to serialize and deserialize. Some interesting uses of the language
beyond the basics. (@a1ien, 2018)
* [sbd.py](https://xed.ch/project/isbd/) This is a Python solution with a lot
of information on the protocol and concepts. Very useful independent of the
language you will use. (@cxed, 2016)