What is a VoIP Media Gateway?
VoIP Media Gateway – Definition
A VoIP Media Gateway is a telecommunication networking unit that performs translation between different technologies, protocols, and networks.
VoIP Media Gateway Protocol conversions and translations
VoIP Media Gateways can perform translations from TDM to Voice Over IP [VoIP], as well as perform translations across various codecs.
VoIP Media Gateway Network interconnections
Networks such as Public System Telephone Network [PSTN], Next Generation Networks [NGN], and wireless networks, can all be interconnected together using a VoIP Media Gateway. VoIP Media Gateways enable multimedia communications across various networks over multiple protocols.
VoIP Media Gateway Solutions:
The Tmedia gateway are most often deployed as a:
Trunking Gateway
Allowing end users with PSTN phones to make calls over VoIP.
International Gateway
or International gateway exchange, is a telephone switch that provides cross-border connectivity by forming a gateway between a national telephone network and one or more other international gateway exchanges.
VoIP Gateway
A very broad term use to define various devices that transmit or routes Voice over IP [VoIP].
Media Gateway
A VoIP Media Gateway is a telecommunication networking unit that performs translation between different technologies, protocols, and networks.
NGN Gateway
Provides the role of the media gateway in next generation networks [NGN].
Signaling Gateway
A network component responsible for transmitting the information related to call establishment, billing, location, short messages, address conversion, and other services.
VoIP Media Gateways are also sometimes referred to as:
Trunking side Gateway, NGN Gateway, TDM/IP Gateway, VoIP Gateway, Voice Gateway, VoIP Media Gateway, PSTN Gateway, MGW, Voice IP Gateway, VoIP SIP Gateway, SIP VoIP Gateway, VoIP Telephone Gateway, VoIP Telephony Gateway, VoIP to PSTN Gateway, Gateway Voice over IP, VoIP Gateways, Gateway VoIP.