accessPointNameNI

Validations ASN.1 Parent Types

The logical Access Point Name (APN) used to determine the actual connected access point for a GPRS connection.  This item contains the Network Identifier part of the APN in dot notation.

Derivation:

From the GSM item AccessPointNameNI as defined in TS GSM 12.15.  Pre GSM Release ’98 from the GSM item AccessPointName (see conditionality note below).

Conditionality:

Mandatory within group GPRS Destination.

Networks which have not yet upgraded to at least GSM Release ’98 do not yet support the separation of the APN into the Network Identifier and Operator Identifier parts and, therefore, must populate a concatenation of both parts within this item.

Validations

Error Code	Context	Severity Level	Validation Description
10	GPRS	Severe	Syntax error.

 

GprsDestination ::= [APPLICATION 116] SEQUENCE
{
    accessPointNameNI           AccessPointNameNI      OPTIONAL, -- *m.m.
    accessPointNameOI           AccessPointNameOI      OPTIONAL,
    remotePdpAddressList        RemotePdpAddressList OPTIONAL
}


Parent Types

GprsDestination
Text extracted from GSMA TD57 standard