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Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)

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The Media Gateway Control Protocol is an architecture for controlling media gateways on Internet Protocol (IP) networks and the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

Protocol architecture

The Media Gateway Control Protocol architecture and its methodologies and programming interfaces are described in RFC 2805.[1]

Implementations

Two implementations of the Media Gateway Control Protocol are in common use. The names of both are abbreviations of the protocol group:

Although similar in architecture, MGCP and Megaco are distinctly different protocols and are not interoperable.

See also

References

  1. ^ RFC 2805, Media Gateway Control Protocol Architecture and Requirements, N. Greene, M. Ramalho, B. Rosen, The Internet Society (April 2000)
  2. ^ RFC 3435, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Version 1.0, F. Andreasen, B. Foster, The Internet Society (January 2003)
  3. ^ RFC 3525, Gateway Control Protocol Version 1, C. Groves, M. Pantaleo, T. Anderson, T. Taylor (editors), The Internet Society (June 2003)