Signalling in a telecommunications network

A signalling point node within a telecommunications network, the signalling point node comprising:

• a Transport Independent Call Control (TICC) part;
• a signalling transport part for transporting call control signalling information between said TICC and peer TICC part at a remote signalling point node wherein said signaling transport part communicates in accordance with a particular transport protocol;
• and
• a signalling transport converter arranged logically between said TICC part and said signalling transport part and arranged to present a standard interface to the TICC part and a specific interface to the signalling transport part, wherein said call control signalling is exchanged between the TICC part and the signalling transport part via the signalling transport converter wherein generic message primitives independent of any signaling transport part are exchanged between the TICC part and the signalling transport converter whilst specific message primitives dependent on said signaling transport part are exchanged between the signalling transport converter and the signalling transport part.