BCH16HF07330A5C2 SCHNEIDER

Overview

In addition to supporting the ISO 7811 ABA (American Banking 

Association) standard the magnetic stripe cards, CyberStation now 

provides support for custom ABA access cards. The CyberStation 

standard ABA card format only reads one field (the Primary Account 

Number or PAN) consisting of 19 digits from the card, which is used to 

identify the card number. The custom ABA card format expands that 

capability (in addition to the card number) to provide support for:

 Site code Issue code Manufacturer code

CyberStation provides the user with an interface to specify the 

structure of a custom ABA magnetic stripe card.

Custom ABA Card Rules

In order for CyberStation to support custom ABA cards the following 

requirements apply:

Continuum ACX series controllers or CX series controllers 

connected to AC-1 Plus Door Access modules must be used.

A door can be configured for ABA Format2 or Custom ABA, but not 

both. Only one custom ABA format will be supported at a time.

The default mode for parsing a card is fixed length. Installations 

not using fixed length cards must indicate that they are using 

variable length structures with a special identifier character (V) 

described later in this section.