Skinny vs MGCP

[abenet]

hi!

Are the Skinny Client Control Protocol and the MGCP the same protocol??? I Would like to receive information about the Skinny message. Is the MGCP firmware the same firmware for Skinny???

Thanks

[tim.medley]

Skinny and MGCP are different Protocols.

Skinny (SCCP) is a Cisco proprietary protocol that is loosely based on the H323 protocol. Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) is an industry standard protocol.

The MGCP firmware and the SCCP firmware are both different images for the Cisco IP Phones. The SCCP ip phone software can be found here: http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ip-7900ser

And the MGCP ip phone software can be found here: http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mgcp-ip-phone7960

tm

Tim Medley, CCDP, CCNP

IPT Consultant

http://www.iptnetworkers.com