Now that your SIM card is provisioned and activated in the Aeris network, you must configure your device's Access Point Name (APN) to access data services. The APN is a reference to an IP address in the Aeris gateway (GGSN/P-GW), where your IoT device connects for data services. DNS is used to resolve the APN to the IP address of the Aeris gateway.
In this article:
What is an APN?
Choosing an APN
The APN you should use depends on the following:
A summary of the APNs for your account were provided by your Aeris Account
Representative in the welcome email. If you do not have access to the welcome email, you can
always find the APN for any SIM in AerPort.
- Your Aeris connectivity service.
- The region where your devices will be used.
To find the APN:
- Click SIMs in the left navigation menu.
- Select the desired SIM. This opens the SIM INFORMATION window.
- Click the SETTINGS tab.
- Locate the Allowed APNs. This indicates which APN you should use to configure
your device. In this example screenshot, it is
iot.aer.net.
Note: You can also use AerPort search to jump to the SIM INFORMATION window from the Dashboard. Simply type the SIM identifier into the search field and click the search icon.