MGCP and H323 on one gateway

Question

I have a customer that is deploying CVP and as such needs H323 gateways. All of there current gateways are MGCP and they do not want to change that, and they don't want to have buy second gateways to support call center calls. In the SRND guide for CVP it states mgcp and h323 can be on one box, as long as h323 controls the trunks for cvp calls. I have never tried running mgcp and h323 at the same time. What pitfalls or limitations are there (srst?)

Answer 1

I am doing this in a similar environment (cvp 3.1 with mgcp/h323 on the same box).
The caveat of "as long as h323 controls the trunks for cvp calls" is pretty big though because the customer would have to have seperate pri's/t1 cas links just for inbound cvp calls.
We have tested SRST and it works properly. MGCP falls back to h.323 and the inbound calls over that PRI (the pri controlled by MGCP) route properly. Inbound calls to the "CVP PRI" still routes calls properly (assuming you have alias's, num-exp, etc setup to handle these calls appropriately.)
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