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The mobile switching station, abbreviated as MSC Server or MSS, is a 2G core network element which controls the network switching subsystem elements. Alternatively or adaptively, MSS can be used in GSM networks as well, if the manufacturer has implemented support for GSM networks in the MSS. Since an immediate upgrade of existing GSM network to ...
Network switching subsystem (NSS) (or GSM core network) is the component of a GSM system that carries out call out and mobility management functions for mobile phones roaming on the network of base stations.
GPRS Tunnelling Protocol is the defining IP-based protocol of the GPRS core network. Primarily it is the protocol which allows end users of a GSM or WCDMA network to move from place to place while continuing to connect to the Internet as if from one location at the Gateway GPRS support node (GGSN).
The MSC pages all the mobile phone masts in the area that the IMSI is registered in order to inform the phone that there is an incoming call for it. If the subscriber answers, a speech path is created through the Visiting MSC and Gateway MSC back to the network of the person making the call, and a normal telephone call follows.
A MSC can serve many BSCs/RNCs, which in turn serves many BTSs. As a result, a MSC can serve a large area, typically hundreds of miles. Highly populated areas require more BTSs and BSCs/RNCs, which will in turn reduce the geographic coverage of a DMSC. The above in a MSC is what's considered as its mobility management.
The Interworking MSC of the SMSC, on receipt of the MAP mo-ForwardSM message, passes the SMS-PP [2] Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) containing the text message to the actual Service Centre (SC) of the SMSC for storing, and subsequent "forwarding" (delivery) to the destination address and the SC returns an acknowledgement indicating ...
The hardware of GSM base station displayed in Deutsches Museum. The base station subsystem (BSS) is the section of a traditional cellular telephone network which is responsible for handling traffic and signaling between a mobile phone and the network switching subsystem.
In mobile cellular telephony networks like GSM and UMTS the SS7 application MAP is used. Voice connections are Circuit Switched (CS) and data connections are Packet Switched (PS) applications. Some of the GSM/UMTS Circuit Switched interfaces in the Mobile Switching Center (MSC) transported over SS7 include the following: B -> VLR (uses MAP/B).