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- Recommendation I.240 - Definition of teleservices
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- 1. General
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- Recommendation I.210 describes the principles for defining telecommunication services supported by an ISDN, includ-
- ing the concept of bearer services, bearer capabilities and teleservices. It also provides the tools for the definition and
- description of such services.
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- The purpose of this Recommendation is to define a recommended set of teleservices to be supported by an ISDN.
- These definitions form the basis for detailed descriptions of teleservices as given in Recommendation I.241 which are
- used to define the network capabilities required.
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- Teleservices are described by prose definitions and descriptions, by attributes and by dynamic descriptions, which
- altogether define the service characteristics at a given access point where the customer accesses the service. Recom-
- mendation I.140 and Recommendation I.210, Annex C describe the use of attributes for this purpose.
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- 2. Definition of teleservices in ISDN
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- This section defines the teleservices identified so far to be supported by an ISDN. Additional teleservices are for fur-
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- The definition of teleservices is based upon the list of attributes given in Recommendation I.210, Annex C.
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- The layer 4 to 7 protocol function and type of user information attribute values (i.e., attribute numbers 10 to 14), the
- low layer attributes values (i.e., the information transfer attributes, the access attributes, and the general attributes are
- the recommended functions for teleservices. The type of user information attribute is considered the only dominant
- attribute. The value of this attribute is the same as the service name used in the E- and F-Series Recommendations
- for the particular service being provided in ISDN.
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- The information transfer and access attribute values for teleservices given in the service descriptions are the pro-
- posed values when using the circuit mode and packet mode bearer capabilities of the ISDN. For the case of telephony,
- only the circuit mode is to be used. Implementations using alternative low layer attribute values are permitted but are for
- further study. From a service interworking perspective it is desirable that the possible combinations of values of the low
- layer attributes of teleservices be the same as the bearer capabilities of the bearer services defined in the I.230-Series
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- The following teleservices have been identified so far to be supported by an ISDN:
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- I.241.1 - Telephony
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- I.241.2 - Teletex
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- I.241.3 - Telefax 4
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- I.241.4 - Mixed mode
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- I.241.5 - Videotex
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- I.241.6 - Telex
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- The prose descriptions (Step 1.1) and static descriptions (Step 1.2) of these services are given in Recommendation
- I.241. The common dynamic description (Step 1.3) for demand bearer services given in Recommendation I.220 is also
- applicable to teleservices.
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- Note - Prose descriptions for Mixed mode, Videotex and Telex are not yet included.
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- 3. Recommended support of teleservices
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- In order to facilitate the development of compatible ISDNs and related user equipment, the tables in Recommendation
- I.241 outline the recommended support of teleservices defined in this Recommendation. The tables consist of two parts:
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- a) description of the overall support of a teleservice by its dominant attribute value, i.e., the value of the high
- layer attribute: type of user information. The recommended overall support of a teleservice is described as:
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- E an essential teleservice to be made available internationally;
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- A an additional teleservice which may be available in some ISDNs, and which may also be available
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- FS the recommended support of this teleservice is for further study,
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- b) within each teleservice, a description of the agreed non-dominant attributes, e.g. values of the high layer
- attributes: layer 4 to 7 protocol functions. If an ISDN supports the teleservice, the recommended support of the
- values of these secondary attribute combinations within this teleservice is described as:
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- E an essential combination of attribute values to be made available internationally (when an ISDN sup-
- ports the particular teleservice);
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- A an additional combination of attribute values which may be available in some ISDNs, and which may
- also be available internationally (when an ISDN supports the particular teleservice);
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- FS the recommended support of this combination of attributes is for further study.
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- Note - During an evolutionary period, not all items marked "E" will be provided in all networks.
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- Recommendation I.241 gives the recommended support of teleservices by ISDN. The recommended overall provision of
- teleservices is reproduced in Table1/I.240.
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- TABLE 1/I.240
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- Recommended overall support of teleservices by ISDNs
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- I.241.1TelephonyE/A (Note)
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- I.241.2TeletexA
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- I.241.3Telefax 4A
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- I.241.4Mixed modeA
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- I.241.5VideotexA
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- I.241.6TelexFS
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- Note - It is anticipated that ISDNs offer telephony as a basic telecommunication service. Some networks will offer this as
- a teleservice. However, due to national regulation policies, some networks will offer telephony as a bearer service rather
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- 4. Prose definitions of teleservices
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- In order to give an overview of the teleservices identified, their definitions, as given in Recommendation I.241, are
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- I.241.1 Telephony
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- The "Telephony service" provides users with the ability for real-time two-way speech conversation via the network.
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- I.241.2 Teletex
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- Teletex is an international service enabling subscribers to exchange office correspondence in the form of documents
- containing Teletex coded information on an automatic memory-to-memory basis via the ISDN.
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- I.241.3 Telefax 4
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- Telefax 4 is an international service enabling subscribers to exchange office correspondence in the form of docu-
- ments containing facsimile coded information automatically via the ISDN.
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- I.241.4 Mixed mode
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- This service provides combined text and facsimile communication (mixed mode) for end-to-end transfer of docu-
- ments containing mixed information of text and fixed images. The high layer attributes are based on the CCITT Recom-
- mendations for Teletex and Telefax 4.
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- I.241.5E Videotex
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- The Videotex service in the ISDN is an enhancement of the existing Videotex service with retrieval and mailbox func-
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- I.241.6 Telex
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- This service provides interactive text communication. The digital signal at the S/T reference point follows the interna-
- tionally agreed Recommendations for telex above the ISDN physical layer.
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