GSN-Lite Architecture

Aricent’ GSN-Lite is a GPRS Support Node that combines the functionality of a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) as well as a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) in the same physical node. It is deployable in GPRS or EDGE networks to perform the functionality of either SGSN or GGSN on different physical nodes.

The following figure depicts the deployment of GSN-Lite in GPRS/EDGE architecture:

GPRS Network Architecture