GL Communications, Inc. MAPS™ MGCP Protocol Emulator PKS124

The Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) is a signaling and call control protocol used between the Media Gateway Controller (MGC) and Media Gateway (MG). The MGC uses MGCP to instruct MG about the events, media, signals to be played on Endpoint, to create a Connection, and to audit the status of the Endpoints and connections involved in the conversion of media from one type of network, to the media required in other type of the network. The Media Gateway uses MGCP to report events (such as off-hook, or dialed digits) to the Call Agent. GL's Message Automation & Protocol Simulation (MAPS™) designed for MGCP testing can simulate MGC to test Media Gateways with various types of calls. It can also control scenario involved in Media conversion. This test tool can also be used to perform protocol conformance testing (MGCP protocol implementations) as per IETF Standard according to RFC 3435. The application is available as MAPS™ MGCP Protocol Emulation with Conformance Test Suite (Item # PKS124) The MAPS™ MGCP Protocol Conformance Scripts is designed with 70+ test cases, as per RFC 3435. Test suite includes in-built scripts, which tests the functionality of the Media Gateway for MGCP protocol valid and in-valid behaviour. With the purchase of RTP Core license (PKS102), MAPS™ MGCP supports transmission and detection of various RTP traffic such as, digits, voice file, single tone, dual tones, IVR, FAX*, and Video*. With regular RTP traffic, the maximum Simultaneous Calls up to 2500, and Calls per Second up to 250 is achievable. Almost all industry standard voice codec supported. GL’s MAPS™ MGCP is also available in High Density version (requires a special purpose network appliance and PKS109 RTP HD licenses). This is capable of high call intensity (hundreds of calls/sec) and high volume of sustained calls (tens of thousands of simultaneous calls/platform). GL also offers MAPS™ Media Gateway Controller (MGC) a multi interface simulator is configured to handle signaling and call control between the Signaling Gateway (SG) and Media Gateway (MG) in the network. With the purchase of PKS300 MAPS™ MGC multi-interface license, end-to-end test scenario can be setup simulating SIGTRAN, MEGACO and MGCP interfaces. GL recommends purchasing additional MG simulation with appropriate RTP licenses for high density traffic simulation.