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    Media Gateway Controller

    Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:48 pm
    Vangie Beal
    Written by Vangie Beal
    Abbreviated as MGC, media gateway controller is a system used in some VoIP architectures. MGC handles the registration and management of resources at the media gateway. A media gateway controller exchanges messages with central office switches via a signaling gateway. A media gateway controller is sometimes called a call agent, call controller, or softswitch.

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    Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

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