What is the difference between iRAT Handover and SRVCC for 4G & 5G?

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SRVCC is handover to 3G.

For the handovers between 4G 5G and wifi, Voice call continues over IP session.

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5G to 4G HO, you mean to iRAT HO, right?

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Yup! :wink:

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So from 5G perspective, we can say 3 solutions to legacy:

  • EPS fall back
  • IRAT Ho
  • eSRVCC
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eSRVCC is defined in R10, not between 5G and 4G.

5G started with R15.

  • SRVCC is for Voice call continuity.
  • eSRVCC is for PS session continuity (in addition to the Voice).
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But even in SRVCC the PS session was handover to SGSN if it falls back to 3G network in LTE.

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That’s an intermediate solution in evolution to VoNR.

VoNR is much advanced compared to VoLTE for marked differences like new codecs (3gpp IVAS) resulting in higher capacities than 3gpp EVS.

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In this post there are also some good answer by @MOHAMED_SALAMA :point_down: