Media Gateway Control Protocol

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Contents 1 Protocol architecture 2 Implementations 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

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

[edit] Protocol architecture

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

[edit] Implementations

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

• MGCP
• Megaco

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

[edit] See also

• Voice over Internet Protocol

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• MGCP Information Site Information related to MGCP
• H.248 Information Site Information related to H.248/Megaco, including pointers to standards and draft specifications

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