The network name is used to indicate the network in which this signalling point is participating. One or more instances of signalling points can exist in the same physical device. This identifier will be used to correlate instances of signalling points by network. When multiple instance support is not enabled the network name will default to the null string.

An octet string specified by an administrator that must be in human-readable form. The names must conform to the allowed characters that can be specified via Command Line Interface(CLI). The names cannot contain control character and should not contain leading or trailing white space.