1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
4 Abbreviations
5 Framework
5.1 Layer 1
5.2 Layer 2
5.3 Implementation
5.4 Operator information
6 Designations of public switched circuit interconnections
6.1 General
6.2 Telephone-type circuits
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Telephone circuits used in manual operation
6.2.3 One-way telephone circuits used for semi-automatic or automatic
operation
6.2.4 Both-way telephone circuits used for semi-automatic or automatic
operation
6.3 Circuit used for switched telex and telegraph services
6.4 Interconnecting circuits in the public switched data network
6.5 Related information
7 Related information for public switched circuit interconnections
7.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1]
7.2 Terminal countries [item 2]
7.3 Names of Network operators/service providers [item 3]
7.4 Control station (sub-control station(s)) [item 4]
7.5 Fault report points [item 5]
7.6 Routing [item 6]
7.7 Association [item 7]
7.8 Equipment information [item 8]
7.9 Use [item 9]
7.10 Transmission medium information [item 10]
7.11 Composition of the transmission [item 11]
7.12 Bandwidth or bit rate [item 12]
7.13 Signalling type [item 13]
8 Designations of fixed (non-switched) circuit interconnections between
operators
8.1 General
8.2 Leased circuit interconnections
8.2.1 General
8.2.2 Analogue leased circuits used for telephony
8.2.3 Analogue leased circuits used for telegraphy
8.2.4 Leased telegraph circuits
8.2.5 Analogue leased circuits used for data transmission
8.2.6 Analogue leased circuits used for phototelegraphy or facsimile
8.2.7 Analogue leased circuits used for sound-programme transmission
8.2.8 Analogue leased circuits used for television transmission
8.2.9 Leased circuits used for digital video transmission
8.2.10 Analogue leased circuits connecting circuit multiplication terminal
equipment at renters' premises
8.2.11 Analogue leased circuits used for transmission other than those
designated above, or used for combinations of transmissions
8.2.12 Analogue leased circuits connecting three or more locations
8.2.13 Leased analogue groups, supergroups, etc.
8.2.14 Leased analogue group, supergroup links
8.2.15 Digital leased circuits connecting two locations
8.2.16 Digital leased circuits connecting three or more locations
8.3 Fixed (non-switched) public circuits
8.3.1 General
8.3.2 Circuits used for sound-programme transmission
8.3.3 Circuits used for television transmision
8.3.4 Circuits for digital audio and video transmission
8.3.5 Telephone-type circuits used for phototelegraphy or facsimile
8.3.6 Telephone-type circuits used to provide voice-frequency telegraph links
8.3.7 Telephone-type circuits used to provide TDM (Time Division Multiplex)
telegraph systems
8.3.8 Telephone-type circuits used for data transmission
8.3.9 Telephone-type circuits used as transfer links for common channel
signalling systems No. 6 and No. 7
8.4 Related information
9 Related information for fixed circuit interconnections
9.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1]
9.2 Terminal countries [item 2]
9.3 Names of Network operators/service providers [item 3]
9.4 Control station (sub-control station(s)) [item 4]
9.5 Fault report points [item 5]
9.6 Routing [item 6]
9.7 Association [item 7]
9.8 Equipment information [item 8]
9.9 Use [item 9]
9.10 Transmission medium information [item 10]
9.11 Composition of the transmission [item 11]
9.12 Bandwidth or bit rate [item 12]
9.13 Signalling type [item 13]
9.14 Applicable ITU-T Recommendations [item 14]
10 Designations of group, supergroup, etc. (bidirectional and
unidirectional) interconnections
10.1 General
10.2 Bidirectional groups, etc.
10.2.1 Group
10.2.2 Supergroup
10.2.3 Mastergroup
10.2.4 Supermastergroup
10.2.5 Use of the groups, etc.
10.2.6 Restoration groups and supergroups
10.3 Unidirectional groups and supergroups
10.3.1 Multiple destination unidirectional groups and supergroups
10.3.2 Single destination unidirectional groups and supergroups
10.4 Related information
11 Designations of group link, supergroup link and line link
interconnections
11.1 Group and supergroup links
11.1.1 Conventional links not connected to their terminal equipment
11.1.2 Restoration links
11.2 Line links
11.3 Related information
12 Related information for group, group link and line link
interconnections
12.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1]
12.2 Terminal countries [item 2]
12.3 Names of Network operators/service providers [item 3]
12.4 Control station [sub-control station(s) [item 4]
12.5 Fault report points [item 5]
12.6 Routing [item 6]
12.7 Association [item 7]
12.8 Equipment information [item 8]
12.9 Use [item 9]
12.10 Transmission medium information [item 10]
12.11 End-to-end information or Operational Agreement [item 11]
12.11.1 End-to-end information (for mixed analogue/digital routes only)
12.11.2 Operational Agreement (for groups, group links and line links only)
12.12 Bandwidth [item 12]
12.13 Occupancy (for groups/supergroups, etc., and for line links) [item 13]
13 Designations of digital block (bidirectional and unidirectional)
interconnections
13.1 General
13.2 Bidirectional digital blocks
13.2.1 Symmetrical configuration
13.2.2 Asymmetrical configuration
13.3 Restoration digital blocks
13.4 Multiple destination unidirectional digital blocks
13.5 Single destination unidirectional digital blocks
13.6 Related information
14 Designation of digital path interconnections
14.1 Conventional digital paths not connected to their terminal equipment
14.2 Restoration digital paths
14.3 Digital line sections and digital radio sections
14.4 Related information
15 Designations of routes in the mixed analogue/digital transmission
network
15.1 Transmission routes with one
analogue-to-digital conversion
15.1.1 Groups and supergroups, etc. forming part of a mixed analogue/digital
transmission route
15.1.2 Digital blocks and paths forming part of a mixed analogue/digital
transmission route
15.1.3 End-to-end designations
15.2 Transmission routes with two analogue-to-digital conversions
15.2.1 End-to-end designations
15.2.2 Intermediate section designation
15.3 Transmission routes with more than two analogue-to-digital conversions
15.4 Related information
16 Designation of data transmission systems
16.1 General
16.2 Data transmission links
16.3 Related information
17 Designations of digital block interconnections created by the
interconnection of Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipments (DCMEs)
17.1 General
17.2 Multi-clique configuration of DCMEs
17.3 Low Rate Encoding Equipment
17.4 Related information
18 SDH
18.1 Designation of multiplex sections of the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
(SDH)
18.1.1 General
18.1.2 Related information
18.2 Designations of Virtual Container interconnections
18.2.1 General
18.2.2 Related information
18.3 Concatenated Virtual Containers
18.4 Leased circuits based on SDH
18.4.1 General
18.4.2 Designations
18.4.3 Application
18.4.4 Related information
19 Related information for digital block, path, data transmission system,
block interconnections created by the interconnection of DCMEs, SDH multiplex
sections and Virtual Containers
19.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1]
19.2 Terminal countries [item 2]
19.3 Names of network operators/service providers [item 3]
19.4 Control station [sub-control station(s)] [item 4]
19.5 Fault report points [item 5]
19.6 Routing [item 6]
19.7 Association [item 7]
19.7.1 Information on reserve blocks, paths, data transmission systems created
digital blocks between DCMEs, Virtual Containers and multiplex sections
19.7.2 Information on diverse routing
19.7.3 Information on consecutive routing
19.7.4 Information on maintaining the sequential order of digital paths
(concatenation)
19.8 Equipment information [item 8]
19.9 Use [item 9]
19.10 Transmission medium information [item 10]
19.11 End-to-end information or composition of transmission or Operational
Agreement [item 11]
19.11.1 End-to-end information (for blocks and paths on mixed analogue/digital
routes only)
19.11.2 Composition of transmission (for data transmission systems)
19.11.3 Operational agreement (for digital blocks, digital paths, virtual
containers and SDH multiplex sections only)
19.12 Bit rate (for blocks, paths and SDH multiplex sections) [item 12]
19.13 Occupancy (except for paths) [item 13]
19.14 Actual number of channels and access point identifier [item 14]
19.14.1 Actual number of channels (primary blocks only)
19.14.2 Access point identifiers (virtual containers and SDH multiplex
sections)
19.15 Clocking information (for blocks only) [item 15]
19.16 Direction of transmission (for unidirectional blocks) [item 16]
20 Designation of connections for the Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM)
20.1 General
20.2 Transport links
20.3 Virtual path
20.4 Virtual channels
20.5 ATM Layer 2
21 Related information for the Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM)
21.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1]
21.2 Terminal countries [item 2]
21.3 Names of Network
operators/service providers [item 3]
21.4 Control and sub-control station(s) [item 4]
21.5 Fault report points [item 5]
21.6 Routing [item 6]
21.7 Association [item 7]
21.8 Equipment information [item 8]
21.9 Use [item 9]
21.10 Transmission medium information [item 10]
21.11 Operational agreement [item 11]
21.12 Unassigned item [item 12]
21.13 Occupancy [item 13]
21.14 Direction of transmission (for unidirectional transit Network Services
only) [item 14]
21.15 ATM transfer capability [item 15]
21.16 Source traffic descriptor [item 16]
21.17 Cell Delay variation tolerance [item 17]
21.18 Quality of Service [item 18]
22 Transit network services
22.1 General
22.2 Transit digital transmission service
22.3 Transit dark fibre service
22.4 Related information
23 Related information on transit network service
23.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1]
23.2 Terminal countries [item 2]
23.3 Names of network operators/service providers [item 3]
23.4 Control station [sub-control station(s)] [item 4]
23.5 Fault report points [item 5]
23.6 Routing [item 6]
23.7 Association [item 7]
23.8 Equipment information [item 8]
23.9 Use [item 9]
23.10 Transmission medium information [item 10]
23.11 SLA [item 11]
23.12 Bit rate [item 12]
23.13 Commercial identifier [item 13]
23.14 Unassigned item[item 14]
23.15 Clocking information [item 15]
23.16 Direction of transmission (for unidirectional transit network services
only) [item 16]
24 Designations for wavelength division multiplexing (Simple and Dense)
24.1 General
24.2 The equipment
24.3 Configurations for the newly created transmission systems
24.4 General format for the optical transmission systems
24.4.1 The function codes
24.5 Related information
25 Related information on DWDM
26 Exceptional designations
26.1 Exceptional designations with intelligence in the serial number
Annex A - Full examples for designation information
A.1 Full example for the designation information of a public switched
telephone circuit
A.2 Full example for the designation information of a leased analogue
circuit
A.3 Full examples for the designation information of a group and a group
link interconnection
A.3.1 Full example for the designation information of a group interconnection
A.3.2 Full example for the designation information of a group link
interconnection
A.4 Full examples for the designation information of a digital block,
digital path, data transmission system, blocks created between DCMEs, Virtual
Containers and SDH multiplex section interconnections
A.4.1 Full example for the designation information of a digital block
(bidirectional) interconnection
A.4.2 Full example for the designation information of a digital path
interconnection
A.4.3 Full example for the designation information of a data transmission
system interconnection
A.4.4 Full example for the designation information of a block created by the
interconnection of DCMEs
A.4.5 Full example for the designation of a Virtual Container interconnection
A.4.6 Full example for the designation information of a multiplex section
interconnection
Annex B - KLM addressing and its relationship to time slot numbering for virtual
containers
B.1 KLM addressing relationship to time slot numbering
B.2 KLM addressing of VC4 occupancy
B.3 Comparative notation of KLM addressing vs. time slot numbering
Annex C - Reference clause numbers for the various types of routes
Annex D - Numbering of channels in data transmission systems
Annex E - Notification form for List of ITU Carrier Codes