A proposed control and signal standard for the conversion of audio signals carried on telephone circuits to data packets carried over the Internet or other packet networks. Unlike regular phones, IP phones and devices are not fixed to a specific switch, so they must contain processors that enable them to function independently from a central switching location. MGCP eliminates the need for complex, processor-intense IP telephony devices, thus simplifying and lowering the cost of these terminals.
An Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft standard for a protocol that allows voice gateways to control external call control elements. MGCP assumes a call control architecture where the call control "intelligence" is outside the gateways and handled by external call control elements.
A protocol designed to control various devices that can handle different types of media, e.g., voice, video, data, etc. It is designed to allow a Media Gateway Controller (MGC) to control one or more unintelligent Media Gateway (MG) devices.
Protocol used to control telephony gateways.
In computing, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) is a protocol used within a distributed Voice over IP system that can appear to the outside world as a single VoIP gateway.