[cisco-voip] Media Termination Point

[David Zhars]

But do I need it?  If in the building with the 2801 I connect to a 3560 with
my phones? Calls come in POTS, get pushed right to the 3560.
Why would I need to involve CCM with that site?
I am sure I am missing something!!

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Michael Thompson <mthompson729 at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Look at the MTP as a logical relay point of the call flow.  Kind of like
> what a repeater used to do in coax based Ethernet.  In an H.323 gateway, it
> puts the software MTP of UCM in the middle of the audio stream between the
> phone end point and the H.323 gateway.
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *David Zhars
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:15 AM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] Media Termination Point
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> I have CCM 4.1.  In another building, connected by fiber, I have a 2801
> configured as H.323
> In CCM, the checkbox "Media Termination Point Required" was checked (on).
> After some work with my VAR, I noticed he turned it off.
> What does it do?  The H.323 box seems sort of "self-standing", in that it
> has 8 POTS lines coming in to it, so I am not sure how much the
> 2801 communicates with CCM.
>
> Any ideas?  Why WOULD I have that setting ON?  I am reading through the
> Cisco docs, but they are not that clear....
>
> Thanks anyone!
>
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