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Transport Plane and Domains Review of 3016-9 design Scott Cadzow, C3L/ETSI-STF194. Transport Plane. Transport plane offers many technologies in different domains Packet transport: IP Packet switching: ATM, X.25 Circuit switching: ISDN/SS7 Service domains offer many services
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Transport Plane and Domains Review of 3016-9 design Scott Cadzow, C3L/ETSI-STF194
Transport Plane • Transport plane offers many technologies in different domains • Packet transport: IP • Packet switching: ATM, X.25 • Circuit switching: ISDN/SS7 • Service domains offer many services • Need to correlate the transport and service • Transport domain independence • Transport domain addressing cannot be guaranteed to be contiguous across all networks
The role of ICFs • To allow transport domains to interwork • To provide session portability between transport domains Transport plane ICF ICF Transport Domain#2 Transport Domain#1 … • Need data to allow ICFs to pull traffic from one transport domain and put it into the next • ICF acts to make transport plane homogeneous
Functional model of transport domain • TU represents the service domain • TFE1 represents the domain transport resource manager • TFE2 represents the transport flow handling at ingress • TFE3 represents the transport flow handling at egress
Bearer Identity • Contained in the payload of the transport domain • Extracted by the ICF • Has to be unique end-to-end • Used with bearer descriptor to characterise transport domain • Signalling exchanges bearer-id, traffic routes on bearer-id • Route is defined during signalling phase as virtual circuit Header Payload Bearer-id Payload Native transport header Payload