General Aspects on the BSS-MSC Interface
The present document is an introduction to the 3GPP TS 08.0x series of Technical Specifications and deals with the definition of the base station system (BSS) to mobile switching centre (MSC) (referred to as the A-interface) defined for the GSM system.
It also introduces Technical Specifications in the 3GPP TS 08.20 series, dealing with the support of data services on this interface.
The present document gives an overview of the content of the 3GPP TS 08.0x and 3GPP TS 08.20 series of Technical Specifications explaining how the detailed content of the Technical Specifications is partitioned and how the Technical Specifications can be used to support a full BSS-MSC interface.