[asterisk-users] Asterisk H.248 Support

[Chad Whitten]

Im not looking for a call agent but rather gateway functionality for a
lab setting to provide dial tone v h.248 to client gateways.

On Feb 16, 2008 5:05 PM, Julio Arruda <jarruda-asterisk at jarruda.com> wrote:
> Chad Whitten wrote:
> > I have been searching for some documentation that would indicate if
> > Asterisk supports H.248 and everything I have come across seems to
> > indicate I should use MGCP which I would agree is a better choice but
> > unfortunately the equipment I am trying to integrate only does H.248.
> >
> > Could anyone point me to something related to this.
> >
>
>
> I've not seem anything on Asterisk being used as a Call Agent for H.248
> gateways, but I've seem the question pop-up at least a couple of times
> in the past.
> I understand there are quite few gateways out there that support H.248
> in one flavor or another. I remember Nortel (used to work there) has at
> least the PVGs/MG7k/15k (high density trunking gateways, quite
> interesting in terms of carrier grade features, like
> non-service-interrupting sw upgrades and etc) and some other gear that
> would run with H.248, also Calix had at least some sw version that would
> do H.248. Isn't H.248/Megaco a kind of 'son-of-MGCP' ?
> I wonder how much effort would be required to implement MGC/call-agent
> capabilities in asterisk..
>
>
>
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