CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 
2     References         
        2.1     Normative references       
        2.2     Informative references      
 3     Terms and conventions   
        3.1     Terms      
        3.2     Conventions         
 4     Abbreviations and Acronyms      
 5     Technical overview         
        5.1     Architectural requirements
                  5.1.1     Call destination    
                  5.1.2     Media Formats    
                  5.1.3     Security   
                  5.1.4     Operational support systems        
        5.2     Announcement definitions 
                  5.2.1     Tones      
                  5.2.2     Fixed-content announcements      
                  5.2.3     Variable-content announcements  
                  5.2.4     Interactive announcements           
                  5.2.5     Naming conventions for endpoint identifiers          
        5.3     Architectural components 
                  5.3.1     Audio Server (AS)          
                  5.3.2     Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA)       
                  5.3.3     Media Gateway (MG)     
                  5.3.4     Call Management Server (CMS) 
        5.4     IPCablecom audio server interface descriptions     
                  5.4.1     Ann-1 Interface – CMS/MTA and MGC/MG announcement package     
                  5.4.2     Ann-2 interface – MPC/MP announcement package        
                  5.4.3     Ann-3 interface – CMS/MPC and CMS/MGC   
                  5.4.4     Ann-4 interface – MP/MTA        
                  5.4.5     Audio Server Physical vs Logical configuration     
        5.5     Interface specifications      
 6     Ann-1 interface: CMS-MTA and MGC-MG      
        6.1     CMS-MTA interface        
                  6.1.1     Announcement list           
        6.2     MGC-MG Interface         
 7     Ann-2 interface: MPC-MP         
        7.1     Introduction          
        7.2     Audio package concepts  
                  7.2.1     Understanding audio segments     
                  7.2.2     Segment identifiers           
                  7.2.3     Segment life         
                  7.2.4     Nested sets and sequences          
                  7.2.5     Sequence example           
                  7.2.6     Set example        
                  7.2.7     Set with nested sequence example           
        7.3     Base Audio Package        
                  7.3.1     Abstract  
                  7.3.2     Events     
                  7.3.3     Signal interactions
                  7.3.4     Parameters          
                  7.3.5     Type-ahead         
                  7.3.6     Return parameters           
                  7.3.7     Segment descriptors        
                  7.3.8     Variable syntax    
                  7.3.9     Variable definitions          
                  7.3.10     Examples          
        7.4     Advanced Audio package
                  7.4.1     Abstract  
                  7.4.2     Sets        
                  7.4.3     Selectors 
                  7.4.4     Selector encoding
                  7.4.5     Variable order     
                  7.4.6     Overrides
                  7.4.7     Parameters          
                  7.4.8     Return codes       
                  7.4.9     Examples
        7.5     Formal syntax description 
Appendix I – Call flow for network announcement    
Appendix II – Call flow for MTA-stored announcement    
       II.1     Call flow details    
Appendix III – Bibliography