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What is MGCP?

April 26, 2017mgcp

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What is MGCP?

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The Media Gateway Control Protocol, or MGCP, is a recent protocol designed to address the requirements of ‘carrier-based’ IP telephony networks. MGCP is a protocol used by external call control devices called Media Gateway Controllers (MGCs) for controlling Media Gateways e.g. VoIPTalk units. With MGCP, the gateway device (e.g. VoIPTalk unit) is ‘dumb’, the MGCP protocol is used by the MGC to activate ringing/dialling/busy tones etc. on the 2600V unit. The ‘intelligence’ of the gateway moves to the centre of the network, to the MGC.