1 Overview

This chapter provides overview information on the distribution cartridge (DC) output formats for the Wireless GGSN/SGSN node chain in Offline Mediation Controller 6.0.

Supported devices

Table 1-1 displays the devices supported for the Wireless service solution.

Table 1-1 Supported devices for Wireless

Vendor Device Hardware Version Format of data generated by device

Nortel

GGSN

Shasta

3.0

3GPP 32.015 v3.2 and v3.6 ASN.1 over GTP'

Nortel

SGSN or

Wireless Gateway (WG)

Passport 15K

SGSN GPRS 5.0 and SGSN UMTS 3.0

3GPP 32.015 v3.2 and v3.6 ASN.1 over GTP'

Supported output formats

The Offline Mediation Controller Wireless service solution supports the following distribution cartridge (DC) output formats for the GGSN/SGSN node chain:

  • ASCII Delimited

  • IPDR

  • XML

  • 3GPP 32.015 ASN.1

The section that follows provides some general information about the Wireless DC output formats.

Descriptions

The available Wireless distribution cartridge (DC) output file formats include:

ASCII Delimited

This file contains strings of ASCII data. Standard ASCII delimited files contain data separated by a delimiter — either a comma or a semi-colon. The general format is a header line followed by one or more lines of data. The header line is a string of parameter names separated by a delimiter. The data lines that follow the header line have a one-to-one order association with the parameter names in the header line.

IPDR

This file is in XML format.

XML

This file is in XML format. The general format of this file is a group of data lines for each count. Each data line contains an attribute tag, the associated value, and an ending tag.

3GPP 32.015 ASN.1

This file contains syntax and basic encoding rules for messages that are sent and received in the network. The syntax rules describe the message content by data type and content sequence or structure. The encoding rules describe how each data item is encoded.