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Overview
How is this chapter organized
This chapter provides a high-level overview of the interworking
between the Multimedia Communications Platform (MCP) and the
following systems:
• Primary Rate Interface (PRI)-enabled switches
• SIP-T-based switches
• third-party gateways
• traditional phones
• third-party voicemail servers
Interworking with PRI-enabled switches
The MCP uses the SIP PRI Gateway to perform interworking with
PRI-enabled switches (switches with PRI interfaces).
For more detailed information about the SIP PRI Gateway, please refer
to the MCP SIP PRI Gateway Basics document.
Functional description
The SIP PRI Gateway is a signaling and media gateway that
interconnects a SIP-based Voice over IP (VoIP) domain and a system
that uses ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI/Q.931).
A PRI-enabled system can be a switch that works on the
Public-Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or Private Branch
Exchange (PBX). The Nortel Networks DMS-100 and the Nortel
Networks Meridian SL-100 are examples of PRI-enabled switches.
The SIP PRI Gateway’s primary function is to convert the packet-based
voice streams of the VoIP system to circuit-based voice streams of the
PRI-enabled system.
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