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The Future of the Enterprise Lan
Published in Marcus K. Weldon, The Future X Network, 2018
With the advent of virtualized packet cores, mobile network operators are starting to offer private network services over LTE as an alternative to traditional VPN clients. To deliver a secure connection to a specific enterprise, a dedicated packet core gateway and an access point name (APN) are configured in the LTE network. Traffic is routed to this dedicated core gateway, and cellular air-interface encryption is used to secure the enterprise’s traffic. For BYOD users, however, the operator must configure specific entries in the home subscriber system (HSS) to authorize access to the enterprise APN, a resource-heavy process that is undesirable. In addition, a VPN is still needed to secure the connection between the APN and the enterprise’s own private network, as this connection may well be routed over a public IP network (for example, the internet). End-to-end security requires installation and management of IPSec clients in each mobile device. While cumbersome for BYOD smartphones, this is all but impossible for many IoT devices, which typically do not support such capabilities.
Protecting the Contents
Published in Curtis Franklin, Brian J. S. Chee, Securing the Cloud, 2019
Curtis Franklin, Brian J. S. Chee
Another great example for proxypass is to do redirections. Therefore, for an Internet of Things (IoT)–type application, one might set up a private Access Point Name (APN) for a fleet of cellular modems. However, you never want someone to get the direct IP address of the typically weakly secured modem. Proxypass could either redirect entire Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) or redirect by port numbers.
Quality of Service Architecture
Published in Hossam Fattah, 5G LTE Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), 2018
EPS bearer connects the UE to the Internet, applications, or other services through the P-GW and PDN. PDN provides the UE with connectivity to the Internet. The UE typically has one connection to a P-GW which is associated with a single PDN. The PDN is represented by an Access Point Name (APN) which is a name, according to DNS naming convention, describing the PDN.
Using innovative smart water management technologies to monitor water provision to refugees
Published in Water International, 2020
Ryan W. Schweitzer, Ben Harvey, Murray Burt
Each of the monitoring devices needed to be configured before it could be deployed. For the GSM devices this involved installation of local SIM cards, setting the device’s mobile internet access point name, and registering the GSM modem with the proprietary dashboard service. For the LoRaWAN-enabled devices this involved waking up the devices for first use and registering them with the LoRaWAN packet service (Things Network). All devices needed to be adjusted in the following way: changing the measurement frequency (from every 30 minutes to every 3 hours), changing the timing of measurements (selecting hours of operation, e.g. from 8 am to 8 pm), and calibrating to the size of the reservoir within which the device was mounted. The process of configuration was documented and qualitatively rated by the UNHCR team on a scale from 1 (easiest) to 10 (hardest).