Summary

Recommendation ITU-T H.248.97 introduces support for stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) bearers in IP media gateways (MGs). It defines ITU-T H.248 packages that allow a media gateway controller (MGC) to control the establishment and the release of SCTP Associations with one of multiple SCTP Streams as well as SCTP reconfiguration procedures. This Recommendation defines a grouping semantics with a deaggregation stream that allows the partition of the protocol stack in two segments: on one side the SCTP Association and layers below, on the other side the individual SCTP Streams.