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LTE: Why TEID is 4 bytes and sequence number 3 bytes long in GTPV2-C header ?

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LTE: Why TEID is 4 bytes and sequence number 3 bytes long in GTPV2-C header ?
posted Jan 7, 2014 by Harshita

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Section 5.3/29.274
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