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Hi Jim,
MGCP Stands for Media Gateway Control Protocol. It's an
older VoIP
protocol that was mainly intended for softswitches to
control VoIP
gateways (hence the name). However, it was also well suited
for telephone
sets (at one time) as well. I personally really like the
MGCP protocol
because it assumes that the endpoint is "dumb as a
brick". ie: everything
from heard tones to dialplan logic ALL comes from the server
side. SIP
phones are rather "intellegent" in that they can
do things like provide
dialtone, perform call forwarding and screening, etc..

Do NOT use MGCP with Asterisk. Although asterisk says it
supports MGCP
it's a horrible implementation of it (and incomplete I
might add). You
should be able to get a Polycom 301 with SIP.
http://www.telephonydepot.com/Produc
tDetails.asp?ProductCode=105%2D058%2D301

It's just firmware...
Hope that helps!
-Brett




On Mon, July 3, 2006 9:17 am, Jim Freeze wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was about to order a polycom 301 when I noticed that
the VoIP
> protocol is listed
> as MGCP and not SIP, as with the 501.
>
> First, what is MGCP?
> And, will the 301's work seamlessly with Asterisk and
the other 501
> phones that I have?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Jim Freeze
>
>
>
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