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4.5.23 Progress indicator

The purpose of the Progress indicator information element is to describe an event which has occurred during the life of a call. The information element may occur two times in a message.

The Progress indicator information element is coded as shown in Figure 4-29 and Table 4-20.

The maximum length of this information element is four octets.

Bits

 

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

Octets

 

Progress indicator Information element identifier

 

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

1

1

Length of progress indicator contents

2

1 ext.

Coding
standard

0
Spare

Location

3

1 ext.

Progress description

4

Figure 4-29/Q.931

Progress indicator information element

Table 4-20/Q.931

Progress indicator information element

Coding standard (octet 3)

Bits

7 6

0 0

CCITT standardized coding, as described below

0 1

ISO/IEC standard (Note 1)

1 0

National standard (Note 1)

1 1

Standard specific to identified location (Note 1)

Note 1 - These other coding standards should be used only when the desired progress indication can not be represented with the ITU-T-standardized coding.

Location (octet 3)

Bits

4 3 2 1

0 0 0 0

User

0 0 0 1

Private network serving the local user

0 0 1 0

Public network serving the local user

0 0 1 1

Transit network (Note 2)

0 1 0 0

Public network serving the remote user

0 1 0 1

Private network serving the remote user

1 0 1 0

Network beyond the interworking point

All other values are reserved.

Note 2 - This value may be generated by some networks.

Note 3 - Depending on the location of the users, the local public network and remote public network may be the same network.

Progress description (octet 4)

Bits

7 6 5 4 3 2 1

No.

0 0 0 0 0 0 1

1. Call is not end-to-end ISDN; further call progress information may be available in.band

0 0 0 0 0 1 0

2. Destination address is non ISDN

0 0 0 0 0 1 1

3. Origination address is non ISDN

0 0 0 0 1 0 0

4. Call has returned to the ISDN

0 0 0 0 1 0 1

5. Interworking has occurred and has resulted in a telecommunication service change (Note 5)

0 0 0 1 0 0 0

8. In-band information or an appropriate pattern is now available.

All other values are reserved.

Note 4 - The use of different progress descriptions is further explained in Annex G.

Note 5 - This progress description value shall be used only in the case of interworking in a full ISDN environment, e.g. when bearer capability selection is not supported or when resource or route of the preferred capability is not available. In case of interworking with a non-ISDN environment a progress description No. 1 shall be used. If the destination address is non-ISDN, the progress description No. 2 shall be used.