Soracom, Inc.

Daichi Funato

Kenta Yasukawa

Ken Tamagawa

A control apparatus for a gateway functioning as the endpoint of a core network in a mobile communication system is provided. The gateway includes a first server configured to receive data from a user apparatus and one or more second servers configured to transfer the data received by the first server to an external network. The control apparatus performs an operation of changing performance of the one or more second servers, an operation of monitoring a processing status of the one or more second servers, and an operation of selecting, from the one or more second servers in accordance with the processing status of the one or more second servers, a second server as a transfer destination of the data received from the user apparatus by the first server.

Control apparatus for gateway in mobile communication system

A communication system for providing a wireless terminal with access to a network, the wireless terminal storing an identification number for accessing a first network, the communication system being configured to receive a connection initiation request from the wireless terminal while the wireless terminal is located in a second service area of a second network, the second service area being different from a first service area of the first network; select, in response to the connection initiation request, a gateway of a third network connected to the second network; and send a gateway ID of the selected gateway toward the second network. A method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program are also disclosed.

Communication system and communication method

A second network which communicates with a communication system for providing access to a network other than a first network, via the second network, to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing the first network is stored, configured to: receive a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal to send the connection initiation request to the communication system, receive a gateway ID of a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network, selected on the communication system based on a network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request, wherein the gateway is within a third network other than the first network, and establish a communication path between the gateway on U-plane designated by the gateway ID.

A communication system for providing access to a network via a second network to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing a first network is stored, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal; a selection unit for selecting a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network based on an obtained network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request; and a sending unit for sending a gateway ID of the selected gateway on U-plane toward the second network.

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Tokyo, Japan

Daichi Funato