7 Control plane interworking

29.1633GPPInterworking between the IP Multimedia (IM) Core Network (CN) subsystem and Circuit Switched (CS) networksTS

Signalling from CS networks to or from IM CN subsystem, where the associated supported signalling protocols are SS7/M3UA+ SCTP+IP and M3UA+SCTP+IP respectively, requires a level of interworking between the nodes across the Control Plane, i.e. the SS7 signalling function, SGW (if applicable), MGCF and SIP signalling function. This interworking is required in order to provide a seamless support of a user part, i.e. SIP and BICC+STC_mtp or SIP and ISUP.

The transport of SS7 signalling protocol messages of any protocol layer that is identified by MTP level 3, in SS7 terms, as a user part (MTP3-user) shall be accomplished in accordance with the protocol architecture defined in the following clauses. For the present document these protocol layers include, but are not limited to, Bearer Independent Call Control (BICC)+STC_mtp and ISDN User Part (ISUP).