Cisco Cisco ASR 5000

Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) Overview

Supported Standards ▀

SGSN Administration Guide, StarOS Release 18 ▄

Supported Standards

The SGSN services comply with the following standards for GPRS/UMTS and EPC wireless data services.

IETF Requests for Comments (RFCs)

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RFC-1034, Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities, November 1987; 3GPP TS 24.008 v7.8.0 (2007-06)

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RFC-1035, Domain Names - Implementation and Specification, November 1987; 3GPP TS 23.003 v7.4.0

(2007-06)

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RFC-2960, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), October 2000; 3GPP TS 29.202 v6.0.0 (2004-12)

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RFC-3332, MTP3 User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), September 2002; 3GPP TS 29.202 v6.0.0 (2004-12)

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RFC-4187, Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3rd Generation Authentication and Key Agreement

(EAP-AKA), January 2006

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RFC-4666, Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA),

September 2006; 3GPP TS 29.202 v6.0.0 (2004-12)

3GPP Standards

3GPP Release 6 and higher is supported for all specifications unless otherwise noted. Support for higher releases is
indicated below, in relation to current and planned development, including support for IEs and messages determined by
supported functionality. Product development is aiming ultimately towards full compliance with the releases listed
below:

Table 6. 3GPP Standards Supported

3GPP Standard

R16.0

R17.0

R18.0

3GPP TS 9.60, 3rd Generation Partnership Project;
Technical Specification Group Core Network;
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); GPRS
Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) across the Gn and Gp
Interface (R98).

v7.10.0 (2002-12)

3GPP TS 22.041, 3rd Generation Partnership
Project; Technical Specification Group Services
and System Aspects; Operator Determined Barring
(ODB)

v9.0.0 (2009-12)

3GPP TS 22.042, 3rd Generation Partnership
Project; Technical Specification Group Services
and System Aspects; Network Identity and
Timezone (NITZ); Service description, Stage 1

v9.0.0 (2009-12)