CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 17343-04 PDF

1 Scope

This International Standard specifies signalling interworking between "QSIG" and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in support of basic services within a corporate telecommunication network (CN). "QSIG" is a signalling protocol that operates between Private Integrated Services eXchanges (PINX) within a Private Integrated Services Network (PISN).

A PISN provides circuit-switched basic services and supplementary services to its users. QSIG is specified in other Standards, in particular ISO/IEC 11572 (call control in support of basic services), ISO/IEC 11582 (generic functional protocol for the support of supplementary services) and a number of Standards specifying individual supplementary services.

SIP is an application layer protocol for establishing, terminating and modifying multimedia sessions. It is typically carried over the Internet Protocol (IP) (IETF RFC 791 and IETF RFC 2460). Telephone calls are considered as a type of multimedia session where just audio is exchanged. SIP is defined in IETF RFC 3261.

This International Standard specifies signalling interworking for basic services that provide a bi-directional transfer capability for speech, DTMF, facsimile and modem media between a PISN employing QSIG and a corporate IP network employing SIP. Call-related and call-independent signalling in support of supplementary services is outside the scope of this International Standard, but support for certain supplementary services (e.g., call transfer, call diversion) could be the subject of future work.

Interworking between QSIG and SIP permits a call originating at a user of a PISN to terminate at a user of a corporate IP network, or a call originating at a user of a corporate IP network to terminate at a user of a PISN. Interworking between a PISN employing QSIG and a public IP network employing SIP is outside the scope of this International Standard.

However, the functionality specified in this International Standard is in principle applicable to such a scenario when deployed in conjunction with other relevant functionality (e.g., number translation, security functions, etc.).

This International Standard is applicable to any interworking unit that can act as a gateway between a PISN employing QSIG and a corporate IP network employing SIP. A brief assessment of security considerations in the IP network resulting from the interworking specified in this International Standard is given in annex C.