February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
27h 48m
English
In Chapter 6, “Signaling Interfaces and MGCP Overview,” you learned the importance of call signaling and its place in the PacketCable architecture. You also gained a solid understanding of Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). This chapter provides you with more real-world exposure to call signaling between PacketCable components; specifically, the multimedia terminal adapter (MTA) and call management server (CMS). These components communicate using a profile of MGCP called Network-based Call Signaling (NCS). This chapter examines how NCS varies from ordinary MGCP, as well as how its messages establish calls and provide feature functionality. Finally, this chapter covers how to configure and troubleshoot ...