Operational aspects of network kit's gateway device in modern conditions

DOI: 10.31673/2412-9070.2026.0245317

Abstract

The article is devoted to analyzing operational aspects of the network kit's gateway device during autonomous access of all authorized bodies to information in the electronic communications network. The network kit's gateway device is a technical means for converting an external standardized interface into internal network interfaces and vice versa, and for performing administration and mediation functions. It is located in the telecommunications equipment domain of the electronic communications service provider and/or networks. The network kit's gateway device interacts with the technical means of administrating and processing of each lawful authorized body, as well as with the equipment for selecting objects for information interception. It is used in operating modes with active, passive, and hybrid methods of access to information. Requirements for its practical implementation in modern conditions have been developed. The network kit's gateway device should create and correct a general correlation table of technical means of administrating and processing of each lawful authorized body, with the identifying features of the interception objects and the terms of the information interception, as well as store the identifying features of interception objects in a separate surveillance table in an unchanged form for the period necessary to carry out the interception of information. The results obtained are consistent with ETSI's conceptual narratives and should be taken into account when developing a unified system of technical means and preparing procedures for intercepting information in electronic communications networks.

Keywords: lawful interception of information, identifying feature, network kit, interception object, conditional feature, gateway device.