Protocol
TCAP
Transaction Capabilities Application Part
Transaction and dialogue layer over SCCP for intelligent-network and mobile services. Begin/Continue/End/Abort components carry MAP, CAP, and INAP operations inside ASN.1 BER structures. Transaction IDs correlate query and response across the network.
Domains
Layers
Tags
ss7dialogueasn1transactions
Sources
- ITU-T Q.771–Q.775 (TCAP)
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