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3.3.1 ALERTING

This message is sent by the called user to the network, and by the network to the calling user, to indicate that called user alerting has been initiated. See Table 3-35.

Table 3-35/Q.931

ALERTING message content

Message type: ALERTING
Significance: global
Direction: both

Information element

Reference
(subclause)

Direction

Type

Length

Protocol discriminator

4.2

Both

M

1

Call reference

4.3

Both

M

2-*

Message type

4.4

Both

M

1

Channel identification

4.5

u ® n

O (Note 1)

2-*

Display

4.5

n ® u

O (Note 2)

(Note 3)

NOTES

1. Mandatory if this is the first message in response to SETUP, unless the user accepts the D-channel indicated in the SETUP message.

2. Included if the network provides information that can be presented to the user.

3. The minimum length is 2 octets; the maximum length is network dependent and is either 34 or 82 octets.