1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Overview
5.1 Call and connection control
5.2 Interaction between control, transport and management planes
6 Transport resources and their organization
6.1 Transport entities
6.2 Routing areas
6.3 Topology and discovery
6.4 Domains
6.5 Multi-layer aspects
6.6 Interlayer client support
6.7 Calls supported by calls at same layer
6.8 Mapped server interlayer relationships
7 Control plane architecture
7.1 Notation
7.2 Policy and federations
7.3 Architectural components
7.4 Protocol controller (PC) components
8 Reference points
8.1 UNI
8.2 I-NNI
8.3 E-NNI
8.4 User architecture
8.5 Inter-layer NCC interactions
9 Control plane use of signalling control networks (SCNs)
10 Identifiers
10.1 Name spaces
10.2 Names and addresses
10.3 Relationships between identifiers
11 Connection availability enhancement techniques
11.1 Protection
11.2 Restoration
11.3 Nested routing domains
12 Resilience
12.1 Principles of control and transport plane interactions
12.2 Principles of protocol controller communication
12.3 Control and management plane interactions
Annex A – Connection services
Appendix I – Resilience relationships
I.1 Control plane – DCN relationships
I.2 Control plane – Transport plane relationships
I.3 Control plane – Management plane relationships
I.4 Intra-control plane relationships
Appendix II – Example of layered call control
Appendix III – Component interactions for connection set-up
III.1 Hierarchical routing
III.2 Source and step-by-step routing
III.3 Connection protection
III.4 Restoration – Hard re-routing – Intra-domain –
Hierarchical method
III.5 Restoration – Soft re-routing – Intra-domain – Source
method
III.6 Restoration – Revertive re-routing – Intra-domain – Source
method
III.7 Source routing using a routing query interface
Appendix IV – Combining protection and restoration domains
Appendix V – Example of explicit multi-layer routing topology
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