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This International Standard specifies the combination of base standards, together with the selection of appropriate options and parameter values, necessary to specify how QSIG / PSS1 can be used to provide digital signalling capabilities at interfaces at the C reference point between a Private Integrated services Network eXchange (PINX) and an Interconnecting Network (ICN) to permit interoperability between equipment from different vendors and different public or private service providers. This International Standard is applicable to attached PINXs and Interconnecting Networks (ICN). This International Standard identifies the necessary or optional employment of particular functions, procedures and services when provided: - physical and electrical characteristics (physical layer) of the interfaces to the transmission systems to be employed; - data link layer procedures; - network layer procedures; and - supplementary services and additional network features to meet specific corporate network user requirements. This International Standard states requirements upon attached PINXs and Interconnecting Network (ICN) implementations in order to achieve interoperability between equipment in PISNs serving as Corporate telecommunication Networks (CNs).