[cisco-voip] MGCP vs H323?

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

I think you hit the nail on the head. This is exactly what I told management after reviewing our 6608 deployment. It's just point and click.
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  From: Wydra, Jason 
  To: Ray Burkholder ; Lelio Fulgenzi ; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
  Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:12 AM
  Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] MGCP vs H323?


  All I can say is that MGCP is almost moron proof (no offense) for simply installations. But H323 on the other hand lends to much more flexibility/features, which also lends to more complex configurations and know how.

   

  Jason Wydra

  Berbee

  Cisco Voice Engineer

  8725 West Higgins Road, Suite 700

  Chicago, Il. 60631

  IP phone 773.867.6084

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  Jason.Wydra at berbee.com

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  From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ray Burkholder
  Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:26 PM
  To: 'Lelio Fulgenzi'; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] MGCP vs H323?

   

  Over satellite links, I'm told that MGCP has faster call setup.  When one has to do down and dirty call troubleshooting, I'm told that H.323 is an absolute winner.  Well perhaps, I can say from first hand experience.    And with H.323, gateway diagnostics are much better, when you get into a bind.  I've got a few tools at http://www.oneunified.net/blog/Cisco/index.blog that are based upon the H.323 experience.  And based upon a few tricks of the peer-mask trade, I much prefer the H.323 route when configuring voice gateways.

   

  Yes, I'm biased.  I look forward to hearing from those that are MGCP biased.  

   

  Probably http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/ps6441/prod_configuration_guide09186a0080565f8a.html gets you close to the documentation you request.

   

  Ray.

     


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    From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
    Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 23:00
    To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
    Subject: [cisco-voip] MGCP vs H323?

    Anyone have any pointers to a Cisco document that explain the difference between MGCP and H323? Namely, what features are available with one or the other?

     

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