0 General
0.1 Terms and definitions
0.2 Layer 1
0.3 Layer 2
0.4 Implementation
0.5 Carrier information
1 Designations of inter-operator
public switched circuits
1.1 General
1.2 Telephone-type circuits
1.2.1 General
1.2.2 Telephone circuits used in manual operation
1.2.3 One-way telephone circuits used for semi-automatic or automatic operation
1.2.4 Both-way telephone circuits used for semi-automatic or automatic
operation
1.3 Circuit used for switched telex
and telegraph services
1.4 Circuits in the inter-operator
public switched data network
1.5 Related information
2 Related information for
inter-operator public switched circuit
2.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1)]
2.2 Terminal countries [item 2)]
2.3 Names of Network operators/service
providers [item 3)]
2.4 Control station [sub-control
station(s)] [item 4)]
2.5 Fault report points [item 5)]
2.6 Routing [item 6)]
2.7 Association [item 7)]
2.8 Equipment information [item 8)]
2.9 Use [item 9)]
2.10 Transmission medium information
[item 10)]
2.11 Composition of the transmission
[item 11)]
2.12 Bandwidth or bit rate [item 12)]
2.13 Signalling type [item 13)]
3 Designations of inter-operator
fixed (non-switched) circuits
3.1 General
3.2 Inter-operator leased circuits
3.2.1 General
3.2.2 Analogue leased circuits used for telephony
3.2.3 Analogue leased circuits used for telegraphy
3.2.4 Leased telegraph circuits
3.2.5 Analogue leased circuits used for data transmission
3.2.6 Analogue leased circuits used for phototelegraphy or facsimile
3.2.7 Analogue leased circuits used for sound-programme transmission
3.2.8 Analogue leased circuits used for television transmission
3.2.9 Leased circuits used for digital video transmission
3.2.10 Analogue leased circuits connecting circuit multiplication terminal
equipments at renters' premises
3.2.11 Analogue leased circuits used for transmission other than those
designated above, or used for combinations of transmissions
3.2.12 Analogue leased circuits connecting three or more locations
3.2.13 Leased analogue groups, supergroups, etc.
3.2.14 Leased analogue group, supergroup links
3.2.15 Digital leased circuits connecting two locations
3.2.16 Digital leased circuits connecting three or more locations
3.3 Fixed (non-switched) public
circuits
3.3.1 General
3.3.2 Circuits used for sound-programme transmission
3.3.3 Circuits used for television transmission
3.3.4 Circuits for digital audio and video transmission
3.3.5 Telephone-type circuits used for phototelegraphy or facsimile
3.3.6 Telephone-type circuits used to provide voice-frequency telegraph links
3.3.7 Telephone-type circuits used to provide TDM (Time Division Multiplex)
telegraph systems
3.3.8 Telephone-type circuits used for data transmission
3.3.9 Telephone-type circuits used as transfer links for common channel
signalling systems No. 6 and No. 7
3.4 Related information
4 Related information for
inter-operator fixed circuits
4.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1)]
4.2 Terminal countries [item 2)]
4.3 Names of Network operators/service
providers [item 3)]
4.4 Control station [sub-control
station(s)] [item 4)]
4.5 Fault report points [item 5)]
4.6 Routing [item 6)]
4.7 Association [item 7)]
4.8 Equipment information [item 8)]
4.9 Use [item 9)]
4.10 Transmission medium information
[item 10)]
4.11 Composition of the transmission
[item 11)]
4.12 Bandwidth or bit rate [item 12)]
4.13 Signalling type [item 13)]
4.14 Applicable CCITT/ITU-T Recommendations [item 14)]
5 Designations of inter-operator
groups, supergroups, etc. (bidirectional and unidirectional)
5.1 General
5.2 Bidirectional groups, etc.
5.2.1 Group
5.2.2 Supergroup
5.2.3 Mastergroup
5.2.4 Supermastergroup
5.2.5 Use of the groups, etc.
5.2.6 Restoration groups and supergroups
5.3 Unidirectional groups and
supergroups
5.3.1 Multiple destination unidirectional groups and supergroups
5.3.2 Single destination unidirectional groups and supergroups
5.4 Related information
6 Designations of inter-operator
group links, supergroup links and line links
6.1 Group and supergroup links
6.1.1 Conventional links not connected to their terminal equipment
6.1.2 Restoration links
6.2 Line links
6.3 Related information
7 Related information for
inter-operator groups, group links and line links
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 End-to-end information or
Operational Agreement [item 11]
7.11.1 End-to-end information (for mixed analogue/digital routes only)
7.11.2 Operational Agreement (for groups, group links and line links only)
7.12 Bandwidth [item 12)]
7.13 Occupancy (for groups/supergroups,
etc., and for line links) [item 13)]
8 Designations of inter-operator digital blocks (bidirectional and
unidirectional)
8.1 General
8.2 Bidirectional digital blocks
8.2.1 Symmetrical configuration
8.2.2 Asymmetrical configuration
8.3 Restoration digital blocks
8.4 Multiple destination
unidirectional digital blocks
8.5 Single destination unidirectional
digital blocks
8.6 Related information
9 Designation of inter-operator digital
paths
9.1 Conventional digital paths not
connected to their terminal equipment
9.2 Restoration digital paths
9.3 Digital line sections and digital
radio sections
9.4 Related information
10 Designations of routes in the mixed analogue/digital transmission
network
10.1 Transmission routes with one
analogue-to-digital conversion
10.1.1 Groups and supergroups, etc., forming part of a mixed analogue/digital
transmission route
10.1.2 Digital blocks and paths forming part of a mixed analogue/digital
transmission route
10.1.3 End-to-end designations
10.2 Transmission routes with two
analogue-to-digital conversions
10.2.1 End-to-end designations
10.2.2 Intermediate section designation
10.3 Transmission routes with more than
two analogue-to-digital conversions
10.4 Related information
11 Designation of data transmission systems
11.1 General
11.2 Data transmission links
11.3 Related information
12 Designations of inter-operator digital blocks created by the
interconnection of Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipments (DCMEs)
12.1 General
12.2 Multi-clique configuration of
DCMEs
12.3 Low Rate Encoding Equipment
12.4 Related information
13 SDH
13.1 Designation of multiplex sections of
the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
13.1.1 General
13.1.2 Related information
13.2 Designations of inter-operator
Virtual Containers
13.2.1 General
13.2.2 Related information
13.3 Leased circuits based on SDH
13.3.1 General
13.3.2 Designations
13.3.3 Application
13.3.4 Related information
14 Related information for inter-operator digital blocks, paths, data
transmission systems, blocks created by the interconnection of DCMEs, SDH
multiplex sections and Virtual Containers
14.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1)]
14.2 Terminal countries [item 2)]
14.3 Names of network operators/service
providers [item 3)]
14.4 Control station [sub-control
station(s)] [item 4)]
14.5 Fault report points [item 5)]
14.6 Routing [item 6)]
14.7 Association [item 7)]
14.7.1 Information on reserve blocks, paths, data transmission systems created
digital blocks between DCMEs, Virtual Containers and multiplex sections
14.7.2 Information on diverse routing
14.7.3 Information on consecutive routing
14.7.4 Information on maintaining the sequential order of digital paths
(concatenation)
14.8 Equipment information [item 8)]
14.8.1 This item records information on equipment in the block, path, etc.,
which requires special maintenance attention
14.8.2 For data transmission systems, this item supplies information about the
multiplex configuration
14.8.3 For blocks created by the interconnection of DCMEs, this item provides
information on through-going channels (which are transmitted even if a DCME
fails) and derived channels (which are not transmitted if a DCME fails)
14.9 Use [item 9)]
14.10 Transmission medium information
[item 10)]
14.11 End-to-end information or
composition of transmission or Operational Agreement [item 11)]
14.11.1 End-to-end information (for blocks and paths on mixed analogue/digital
routes only)
14.11.2 Composition of transmission (for data transmission systems)
14.11.3 Operational agreement (for digital blocks, digital paths, virtual
containers and SDH multiplex sections only)
14.12 Bit rate (for blocks, paths and
SDH multiplex sections) [item 12)]
14.13 Occupancy (except for paths) [item
13)]
14.14 Actual number of channels and
access point identifier [item 14)]
14.14.1 Actual number of channels (primary blocks only)
14.14.2 Access point identifiers (virtual containers and SDH multiplex
sections)
14.15 Clocking information (for blocks
only) [item 15)]
14.16 Direction of transmission (for
unidirectional blocks) [item 16)]
15 Designation of connections for the Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM)
15.1 General
15.2 Transport links
15.3 Virtual path
15.4 Virtual channels
15.5 ATM Layer 2
16 Related information for the Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM)
16.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1)]
16.2 Terminal countries [item 2)]
16.3 Names of Network
operators/service providers [item 3)]
16.4 Control and sub-control station(s)
[item 4)]
16.5 Fault report points [item 5)]
16.6 Routing [item 6)]
16.7 Association [item 7)]
16.8 Equipment information [item 8)]
16.9 Use [item 9)]
16.10 Transmission medium information [item 10)]
16.11 Operational agreement [item 11)]
16.12 Unassigned item [item 12)]
16.13 Occupancy [item 13)]
16.14 Direction of transmission (for
unidirectional transit Network Services only) [item 14)]
16.15 ATM transfer capability [item 15)]
16.16 Source traffic descriptor [item
16)]
16.17 Cell Delay variation tolerance
[item 17)]
16.18 Quality of Service [item 18)]
17 Transit network services
17.1 General
17.2 Transit digital transmission
service
17.3 Transit dark fibre service
17.4 Related information
18 Related information on transit network service
18.1 Urgency for restoration [item 1)]
18.2 Terminal countries [item 2)]
18.3 Names of network operators/service
providers [item 3)]
18.4 Control station [sub-control
station(s)] [item 4)]
18.5 Fault report points [item 5)]
18.6 Routing [item 6)]
18.7 Association [item 7)]
18.8 Equipment information [item 8)]
18.9 Use [item 9)]
18.10 Transmission medium information
[item 10)]
18.11 SLA [item 11)]
18.12 Bit rate [item 12)]
18.13 Commercial identifier [item 13)]
18.14 Unassigned item[item 14)]
18.15 Clocking information [item 12)]
18.16 Direction of transmission (for
unidirectional transit network services only) [item 16)]
19 Designations for wavelength division multiplexing (Simple and Dense)
19.1 General
19.1.1 The equipment
19.2 Configurations for the newly
created transmission systems
19.3 General format for the optical
transmission systems
19.3.1 The function codes
19.4 Related information
20 Related information on DWDM
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 an inter-operator group and an inter‑operator group link
A.3.1 Full example for the designation information of an inter-operator group
A.3.2 Full example for the designation information of an inter-operator group
link
A.4 Full examples for the designation
information of an inter-operator digital block, digital path, data transmission
system, blocks created between DCMEs, Virtual Containers and SDH multiplex
sections
A.4.1 Full example for the designation information of an inter-operator
digital block (bidirectional)
A.4.2 Full example for the designation information of an inter-operator
digital path
A.4.3 Full example for the designation information of an inter-operator data
transmission system
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 an inter-operator Virtual Container
A.4.6 Full example for the designation information of an inter-operator
multiplex section
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 subclause numbers for the various types of routes
Annex D -
Alphabetical list of abbreviations used in this Recommendation
Annex E -
Numbering of channels in data transmission systems
Annex F -
Notification form for List of ITU Carrier Codes