I'm little confused about whether the calling name is passed from the
> originating MSC to the destination MSC, or the destination MSC queries
> the 'Name Database' and gets this information.
> I checked the 3GPP 23.096, but I still has this ambiguity. Can
> somebody clarify it?
The terminating switch inspects the receiving customer's service options, and if "with name" service is specified for caller id, it performs a database lookup in the Line Information DataBase (LIDB) to retrieve the originating caller's name.
HTH.
William
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