Standard ECMA-212

Standard ECMA-212
Private Integrated Services Network (PISN) - Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol - Advice of Charge Supplementary Services (QSIG-AOC)

3^rd edition (December 2001)

This Standard specifies the signalling protocol for the support of the Advice Of Charge supplementary services (SS-AOC) at the Q reference point between Private Integrated services Network eXchanges (PINX) connected together within a Private Integrated Services Network (PISN).

SS-AOC is a set of supplementary services which enable a user to receive information about the charging of its calls that leave the PISN and enter another network.

The three AOC supplementary services are:

Charging information at call set-up time (AOC-S) SS-AOC-S enables the user to receive information about the charging rates at call set-up time and also to receive further information during the call if there is a change of charging rates.
Charging information during the call (AOC-D) SS-AOC-D enables a user to receive information on the recorded charges for a call during the active phase of the call.
Charging information at the end of the call (AOC-E) SS-AOC-E enables a user to receive information on the recorded charges for a call when the call is terminated.

The Q reference point is defined in ECMA-133.

Service specifications are produced in three stages and according to the method specified in ETS 300 387. This Standard contains the stage 3 specification for the Q reference point and satisfies the requirements identified by the stage 1 and stage 2 specifications in ECMA-211.

The signalling protocol for SS-AOC operates on top of the signalling protocol for basic circuit switched call control, as specified in ECMA-143, and uses certain aspects of the generic procedures for the control of supplementary services specified in ECMA-165.

This Standard also specifies additional signalling protocol requirements for the support of interactions at the Q reference point between SS-AOC and other supplementary services and ANFs.

NOTE
Additional interactions that have no impact on the signalling protocol at the Q reference point can be found in the relevant stage 1 specifications.

This Standard is applicable to PINXs which can interconnect to form a PISN.

The protocol defined in this Standard forms part of the PSS1 protocol (informally known as QSIG).

The following file can be freely downloaded:

File name	Size (Bytes)	Content
ECMA-212.pdf	777 253	Acrobat (r) PDF file

This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 15050.

The previous replaced "historical" editions of this Ecma Standard are available here.

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