Telecom Technical Difference between TCAP transaction and dialog

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Difference between TCAP transaction and dialog hanxiangyang 05-25-09
Posted by on May 25, 2009, 2:54 am
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Hi,

Can anyone please explain to me the difference between a transaction
and a dialog in TCAP? I also noticed there were transaction ID and
dialog ID.

Thanks,
Daniel

Posted by Vance on May 25, 2009, 1:38 pm
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Daniel,

The dialogue portion communicates information used at the application
layer.
The seven layer OSI concept in the contextr of TCAP is described in
my
TCAP implementation project here:

http://www.motivity.ca/tcap

-Vance


On May 25, 2:54=A0am, hanxiangy...@gmail.com wrote:
> Can anyone please explain to me the difference between a transaction
> and a dialog in TCAP? I also noticed there were transaction ID and
> dialog ID.


Posted by on May 30, 2009, 10:41 pm
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> Daniel,
>
> The dialogue portion communicates information used at the application
> layer.
> The seven layer OSI concept in the contextr of TCAP is described in
> my
> TCAP implementation project here:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.motivity.ca/tcap
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0-Vance
>
> On May 25, 2:54=A0am, hanxiangy...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Can anyone please explain to me the difference between a transaction
> > and a dialog in TCAP? I also noticed there were transaction ID and
> > dialog ID.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi Vance,

Thanks for your reply. So the dialog ID is used in component sublayer
which is based on transaction layer. And the dialog IDs are visible to
TC user, while the transaction IDs are visible to dialog sublayer
(invisible to TC user), right? But does a dialog ID have any mapping
to a transaction ID, e.g., one to one mappings? And in a typical TCAP
call (setup, going stable, then tear down), how many dialogs and
transactions are involved?

I am not a native English speaker so these words make me a little hard
to understand clearly.

Thanks again,
Daniel Han

Posted by Daniel on May 31, 2009, 2:11 am
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> Daniel,
>
> The dialogue portion communicates information used at the application
> layer.
> The seven layer OSI concept in the contextr of TCAP is described in
> my
> TCAP implementation project here:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.motivity.ca/tcap
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0-Vance
>
> On May 25, 2:54=A0am, hanxiangy...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Can anyone please explain to me the difference between a transaction
> > and a dialog in TCAP? I also noticed there were transaction ID and
> > dialog ID.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I usually think the following terms as the same, but it appears they
are not, sometimes, in the signaling world.

session, dialog, transaction, conversation, etc.

Really confusing sometimes! :-(

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