MGCP Information Site
MGCP was originally developed to address the need of scaling ingress and egress gateways in order to meet the demands of service providers. MGCP utilizes SDP for negotiating the media streams transmitted and received on the packet network, which significantly reduces the interworking complexity between SIP-based media gateway controllers (or "call agents") and media gateways. MGCP was published by the IETF as Informational RFCs (shown on this page) and also standardized by the ITU-T and adopted for use within cable networks. MGCP is widely deployed around the world.
| RFC | Document Title |
|---|---|
| RFC 2705 | Media Gateway Control Protocol 1.0 (Obsolete: see RFC 3435) |
| RFC 3435 | Media Gateway Control Protocol 1.0 |
| RFC 3660 | Basic Media Gateway Control Protocol Packages |
| RFC 3661 | MGCP Return Code Usage |
| RFC | Document Title |
|---|---|
| RFC 2897 | Proposal for an MGCP Advanced Audio Package |
| RFC 3064 | MGCP CAS Packages |
| RFC 3149 | MGCP Business Phone Packages |
| RFC 3441 | Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Package |
| RFC 3624 | Bulk Audit Package |
| RFC 3991 | Redirect and Reset Package |
| RFC 3992 | Lockstep State Reporting Mechanism |
| RFC 6498 | Voiceband Data and General-Purpose Media Descriptor Parameter |
Please also refer to these IANA pages:
A complete list of CableLabs and PacketCable specifications available here.
| ITU-T Rec. | Document Title |
|---|---|
| J.162 | Network call signalling protocol for the delivery of time-critical services over cable television networks using cable modems |
| J.169 | IPCablecom network call signalling (NCS) MIB requirements |
| J.171 | IPcablecom trunking gateway control protocol (TGCP) |
| J.175 | Audio server protocol |
| Doc ID | Document Title |
|---|---|
| SCTE 24-3 | IPCablecom 1.0 Part 3: Network Call Signaling Protocol for the Delivery of Time-Critical Services over Cable Television Using Data Modems |
| SCTE 24-8 | IPCablecom 1.0 Part 8: Signaling Management Information Base (MIB) Requirements |
| SCTE 24-12 | IPCablecom 1.0 Part 12: Trunking Gateway Control Protocol (TGCP) |
SCTE specifications are available here. Type in "IPCablecom" to search for all of the various specifications. Those listed in the table above were considered essential for work related to MGCP and TGCP, but others may be of interest to you.