SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE NETWORK ACCESS POINT NAME VIRTUALIZATION

Mobile and in particular Internet of things (IoT) devices have access point names (APN) for identifying network servers with which they are supposed to communicate. Disclosed are network devices and methods for APN virtualization to manage the mobile devices. The network device may replace an origin...

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Zusammenfassung:Mobile and in particular Internet of things (IoT) devices have access point names (APN) for identifying network servers with which they are supposed to communicate. Disclosed are network devices and methods for APN virtualization to manage the mobile devices. The network device may replace an original APN with an assigned APN by looking up the mobile device in a database, based on a device identification. The modified APN is then used in a standard DNS lookup.