Steel Belted Radius Carrier 7.0 Installation Guide > Configuring SS7/IP Network Communication Files > Configuring Communication Files Overview

NOTE: Configuring the SS7/IP Network communication is common to both the SIM and SMS authentication module. This release of Steel-Belted Radius Carrier supports only the SIM authentication module.

Configuring Communication Files Overview

When configuring the communication pathways between Steel-Belted Radius Carrier and equipment in the SS7 network, you need to configure certain files based on your choices of the following:

• Type of network equipment Steel-Belted Radius Carrier communicates with for processing authorization requests. (See Table 8 for information of which type of equipment is used.)

• HLR

• Type of network.

• SS7
• SS7 over IP (SIGTRAN)
  
  
  Table 8: Network Equipment Used for Authorization

  Action Needed to Process Access-Request	Network Equipment
  Obtain SIM triplets	HLR
  Obtain AKA quintets	HLR
  Obtain IMSI (given the MSISDN)	HLR
  Obtain MSISDN (given the IMSI)	HLR
  Obtain Authorization string	HLR or database

  
  

NOTE: If quintets are received but triplets are needed, then Steel-Belted Radius Carrier converts the quintets to triplets according to specification 3G TS 33.102, available at http://www.3gpp.org.