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PCRF Gx related: CCRequest message during the attach, TFT info

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Looking at interoperability issues.
The CCRequest message sent from PGW to PCRF during attach. Does the CCA sent back from PCRF to PGW needs to have TFT info?

posted Jun 30, 2015 by Pdk

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During initial attach UE will not request any kind of filter.

However operator has to track down the data being consumed on the default bearer too.

So what operator basically does it that they configure a static rule on PGW with some service-id and rating-group. Now what happens is that when initial CCR-I will go operator will create a policy in PCRF based on the CCR type and APN which in-turn will send the static rule name in CCA.

PGW will then enforce that rule so that charging can be done based on the service id and rating group on OCS.

Sometime operator can use this static rule to allow disallow some service on default bearer

Eg: Operator may want to allow only IMS Signalling on default bearer for IMS APN and drop other packets.

Regards,
Peeyush Sharma

answer Jul 15, 2015 by Peeyush Sharma
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