H.323 and MGCP

H.323 and MGCP

International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T)’s H.323

• further details at: http://www.h323forum.org/ Links to an external site. 

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)’s Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) defined in RFC 3435 and updated by RFC 3661- used for controlling telephony gateways.

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Slide Notes

F. Andreasen and B. Foster, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), Version0, IETF RFC 3435, January 2003, Updated by RFC 3661. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3435.txt Links to an external site.

B. Foster and C. Sivachelvan, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Return Code Usage, RFC Editor, RFC 3661 (Informational), ISSN 2070-1721, December 2003 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3661.txt Links to an external site.

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Transcript

[slide541] There's H.323 and another protocol called MGCP, the Media Gateway Control Protocol. And there are telephony systems that use both of those.