Summary

This amendment extends the ITU-T Rec. J.162 with three new appendices to include additional capability appropriate in Europe, to meet requirements for European Operators.

Appendix VII (European Event Packages), defines an initial set of event packages for the various types of endpoints currently defined by IPCablecom for embedded clients.

Appendix VIII (Application of the NCS protocol to a SCN IPAT), specifies an application of the NCS protocol, described in the body of this Recommendation, to an IPATdevice that is capable of emulating an AccessNetwork to an European compliant Local Exchange, (LE) that forms a part of a SCN.

Appendix IX (Metering support for IPCablecom NCS), describes a package for the automatic transmission of hardware metering pulses on analogue lines. It also includes metering-specific call flows.