Note
On 29 June 2023, Mobius Software LTD signed an agreement with Mavenir to assume development and support of the RestcommOne on prem products. For more details regarding open source / commercial differentiation, roadmap, licensing and other details please visit the Mobius Website.
The Gateway Mobile Location Centre enables offering Location Based Services (LBS) involving mobile subscribers roaming accross either legacy GSM or UMTS/HSPA+ networks, or Next Generation Networks like LTE/LTE-Advanced.
In one PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network), there may be more than one GMLC. The GMLC is the first node an external LCS client accesses in a GSM, UMTS or LTE network. The GMLC may request routing information from the HLR (Home Location register) or HSS (Home Subscriber Server). After performing registration authorization, it sends positioning requests to either the VMSC (Visited Mobile Switching Centre), SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) MSC (Mobile Switching Centre) Server or MME (Mobility Management Entity) and receives final location estimates from the corresponding network node. Furthermore, it may receive mobile subscriber location reports on event based deferred location requests.
GMLC is built on RestComm jSS7 and RestComm jDiameter.