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Scope
2
References
3
Terms, Abbreviations and Conventions
3.1 Terms and Abbreviations
3.2 Conventions
4
Signalling protocols
Appendix
I - ISTP Profile 1
I.1 Scope
I.2 Overview and background motivation
I.2.1 Service goals
I.2.2 IPCablecom reference architecture
I.2.3 Introduction to ISTP
I.2.4 Specification goals
I.2.5
Specification interfaces
I.3 Architecture
I.3.1 IPCablecom to PSTN
I.3.2 Signalling architecture network model
I.3.3 Protocol stack
I.4 Functional areas
I.4.1 Mapping relationships
I.4.2 Message distribution
I.4.3 Mapping
I.4.4 Relationships
I.4.5 Initialization
I.4.6 Recovery
I.4.7 Dynamic provisioning
I.4.8 Administration
I.4.9 Security
I.4.10 Maintenance
I.4.11 Measurement
I.4.12 Alarms
I.4.13 Congestion
I.4.14 Management of lower layers
I.5 Protocol
I.5.1 General requirements
I.5.2 Procedures
I.5.3 Failure detection and handling
I.5.4 Message format
I.5.5 Messages
I.6 SCTP and TCP usage
Recommendations
I.6.1 SCTP Usage recommendations
I.6.2 TCP usage recommendations
I.7 ISTP message flows and
timer definitions
I.7.1 Timers
I.7.2 MGC requests ISUP service procedure
I.7.3 MGC terminates ISUP service procedure
I.7.4
Residential CA requests TCAP service procedure
I.7.5 Residential CA terminates TCAP service
procedure
I.7.6 A typical origination communication
I.7.7 Freephone service
I.7.8 MGC failover procedure
I.7.9 MGC switchover procedure
I.8 Network reliability
I.8.1
Guaranteed performance
I.8.2
Performance model
Appendix
II - ISTP Profile
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Appendix
III -
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