[cisco-voip] H.323 vs MGCP

[Andre Beck]

Hi Matthew,

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:23:27PM -0400, Matthew Loraditch wrote:
> All,
> In the past I have had MGCP setup for my gateways but recently took over a system with h.323 for the gateways. The gateways are only connected to and used by CCM and I like the MGCP abilities to control the various ports directly in CM. Is there any benefit to keeping them as H.323? If not is it difficult to convert between one or the other?

Most things have already been mentioned. What I stumbled about at a
customer site where I helped them to get the PSTN ports of a certain
gateway from MGCP to H.323 is another, IMO killer reason: BRI overlap
receiving. This as well as non-global manipulation of numbers in a
variable number length dial plan (prepending the right amount of traffic
discrimination digits to the calling party number of incoming calls
depending on call type [subscriber, national and international]) seemingly
is completely off limits for MGCP, but easily done with IOS/H.323.

And all this is mandatory in the region of my dwelling, called Germany,
if you actually expect to be reachable from analog PSTN phones ;)

HTH,
Andre.
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