ITU-T Recommendations

In order to support the development of IP-related standards, this Recommendation identifies a framework to position the telecommunications aspects with respect to IP networks. This framework serves to identify and assist understanding the IP network issues, from the telecommunications point of view, with respect to the provision of seamless services to the user between IP networks and telecommunications networks in a convergence context.This Recommendation outlines a number of general architectures involving a mix of Telecommunication Network and Internet Protocol (IP) Network technologies. In this Recommendation, IP, the Internet Protocol, is considered in its role as a protocol purely associated with transporting connectionless packets.