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Connecting to SWIFTNet

SWIFTNet exchanges via the SAG interface

SWIFTNet access from FEX

To access SWIFTNet from your local network you create a dedicated SWIFTNet connection. Your SWIFTNet access point is managed by a server containing a combination of SWIFTNet Link and SWIFTAlliance Gateway:

SWIFTNet Link (SNL): SNL provides the basic set of network connection services for SWIFT exchanges. For example, SNL provides transport, service management and security functionalities, as well as SWIFTNet PKI access, role-based access control, and so on.
For a list of the platforms that support SNL, consult www.swift.com.
SWIFTAlliance Gateway (SAG): SAG is the interface to SNL that extends your SWIFTNet connection to multiple applications such as business applications or SWIFTAlliance Access for the FIN messaging handling.
SAG acts as a concentrator for SWIFTNet message flows. It is an interface solution for handling both InterAct and FileAct exchanges, and FIN messaging through the SAA.
For a list of the platforms that support SAG, consult www.swift.com.

FIN exchanges via the SAA interface

SWIFTAlliance Access (SAA) is an interface that provides message routing, safe-storage, validation, authorization, and processing for SWIFTNet FIN messages, and from SAA version 5.9, SWIFT-XML messages.

Axway Financial Exchange uses SAA to access the FIN message exchange services. There are various means to communicate with SAA , among them MQSeries through a dedicated SAA component called MQSA, and alternatively, Automated File Transfer. Synchrony for SWIFTNet provides both of these communication interfaces. SAA uses SAG as the interface to SWIFTNet.

For a list of the platforms that support SAA, consult www.swift.com.

SWIFTNet exchanges via the SAG interface

Axway Financial Exchange uses the SAG interface to access SWIFTNet connectivity services and to exchange messages with SWIFTNet partners via InterAct and FileAct.

To enable Gateway and file access to SWIFTNet through SAG, you must install an instance of SWIFTNet RA. SWIFTNet RA is a C/C++ Remote API for SAG.

Among other functionalities, the SWIFTNet RA instance provides libraries for the Gateway runtime environment.

For a list of the platforms that support SAG, consult www.swift.com.