INAP Intelligent Network Application Protocol.A signalling protocol between ServiceSwitching Point and Service ControlPoint.

It enables Intelligent Networkservices. IP Internet protocol. A communicationprotocol specied by the InternetEngineering Task Force (IETF). ISUP ISDN User Part. This portion of thesignaling system manages the telephonecall, including calling party numberinformation, call status checking, trunkmanagement, system messaging. MAP Mobile Application Part. An open interfacespecied by ETSI. The MAP functionsmainly concern the informationexchange between switches and registersin GSM networks related to thepossibility for a mobile station to roam. MGW Multimedia Gateway. Network elementthat together with MSC Server forms theMSC Server System. It takes care of switching and carries the actual trafc.Multimedia Gateway is dened in 3GPPRelease 4 specications. MSS MSC Server. Network element thattogether with Multimedia Gateway formsthe MSC Server System. It handles callcontrol and signaling. MSC Server isdened in 3GPP Release 4 specications. PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network.Regular phone lines. SIGTRAN SIGTRAN is a set of protocols dened totransport SS7 messages over IP networks. 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project.A group of organizational partners thathave agreed to co-operate in theformulation of technical specicationsfor third generation mobile systemsbased on further evolved GSM corenetworks and radio access technologies. ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode.An international CCITT standard forhighspeed packet-switched networksthat operates at digital transmissionspeeds above 1.544 Mbps.

BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempt. How many callsetups are made in an hour. Examplevalue 3600 bhca means that new callattempt is made after every second. BICC Bearer Independent Call Control.An Inter-MSC Server signaling protocolspecied by ITU-T and 3GPP. The use isdened in 3GPP Release 4 specications. CAP CAMEL Application Protocol. A signallingprotocol between Service Switching Pointand Service Control Point. It enablesIntelligent Network services for roamingsubscribers. H.248/Megaco MSC Server uses this protocol to controlMultimedia Gateway over the Mcinterface. It is dened in 3GPP Release 4specications. IMS IPMultimedia Subsystem. Enables operatorsto deploy person-to-person multimediaservices in 2G and 3G networks. SIP Session Initiation Protocol. A signalingprotocol for Internet conferencing,telephony, presence, events noticationand instant messaging. SMSC Short Message Service Centre. Networkelement through which short messagesare transmitted and in which they canbe stored for later transmission if thereceiver is not reached. TDM Time Division Multiplexing. A type of multiplexing that combines data streamsby assigning each stream a differenttime slot in a set. TFO Tandem Free Operation. Congurationof a voice or multimedia call for whichtranscoders are physically present in thecommunication path but transcodingfunctions are disabled or partiallydisabled in order to avoid multipletranscoding. The objective of avoidingmultiple transcoding is to improve thespeech quality in calls. TrFO Transcoder Free Operation. Congurationof a speech or multimedia call for whichno transcoder device is physicallypresent in the communication path andhence no control or conversion or otherfunctions can be

associated with it.The purpose of TrFO is to removeunnecessary speech encoding completelyfrom the speech path. UMTS Universal Mobile TelecommunicationSystem. Third generation mobile system. VoIP Voice over IP. Technology to carry voicecommunication over a data networkbased on the Internet protocol