IPSG Changes in Release 14.0

This chapter identifies features and functionality added to, modified for, or deprecated from 14.0 IPSG software releases.

Topics covered in this chapter are:

IMPORTANT:

Enhancements to Diameter, GTPP, and RADIUS in release 14.0 are located in the Accounting Management Changes chapter.

Enhancements to SNMP MIB in release 14.0 are located in the SNMP MIB Changes chapter.

Enhancements to Web Element Manager (WEM) in release 14.0 are located in the Web Element Manager Changes chapter.

IPSG Feature Changes as of June 29, 2012

This section provides information on IPSG feature changes in release 14.0.

IMPORTANT:

For more information regarding features in this section, refer to the IPSG Administration Guide for this release.

New IPSG Features

This section identifies new IPSG features available in release 14.0.

Virtual APN Support

IPSG Virtual APN configuration is supported in this release. This feature allows the carriers to use a single APN to configure differentiated services. The APN selection is based on the APN supplied to the IPSG in conjunction with the following configurable parameters:

  • access-gw-address (for IPSG this means the RADIUS client)
  • msisdn-range
  • rat-type

For more information, refer to the virtual-apn CLI command in the APN Configuration Mode Commands chapter of the Command Line Interface Reference.

Modified IPSG Features

This section identifies IPSG features modified in release 14.0. There are two kinds of modified features: enhancements and behavior changes. Enhancements are feature changes based on customer change requests. Behavior changes are feature changes that modify an existing behavior and may result from software error corrections (bug fixes).

None for this release.

IPSG Configuration Management Changes as of June 29, 2012

This section provides information on IPSG configuration command changes in release 14.0.

IMPORTANT:

For more information regarding commands in this section, refer to the Command Line Interface Reference for this release.

New IPSG Configuration Commands

This section identifies new IPSG commands available in release 14.0.

virtual-apn

In support of the IPSG Virtual APN feature this command, previously available to other gateways, is now available to the IPSG. This command configures references to alternative APNs to be used for PDP context processing based on properties of the context. This command also configures the APN properties against which the PDP contexts are compared.

Note that in this release IPSG Virtual APN configuration supports only the following parameters:

  • access-gw-address (for IPSG this means the RADIUS client)
  • msisdn-range
  • rat-type

For more information, refer to the virtual-apn CLI command in the APN Configuration Mode Commands chapter of the Command Line Interface Reference.

APN Configuration Mode 

virtual-apn preference priority apn apn_name [ access-gw-address { ip_address | ip_address/mask } | [ msisdn-range { from msisdn_start_range to msisdn_end_range } ] [ rat-type { eutran | gan | geran | hspa | utran | wlan } ] ]

no virtual-apn preference priority

Modified IPSG Configuration Commands

This section identifies IPSG commands modified in release 14.0.

None for this release.

Deprecated IPSG Configuration Commands

This section identifies deprecated IPSG commands that are no longer supported in release 14.0.

None for this release.

IPSG Performance Management Changes as of June 29, 2012

This section provides information on IPSG performance management changes in release 14.0.

None for this release.

IPSG Security Management Changes as of June 29, 2012

This section provides information on IPSG security management changes in release 14.0.

None for this release.