Concepts

How the gateway is put together and how a call moves through it.

Three things are worth understanding before changing anything:

  • Call flows — the ordered steps of an inbound and an outbound call, and why the order differs.
  • Routing plane — how a call is admitted, how a trunk is resolved, and what gets published.
  • Media pipeline — codecs, SRTP, jitter, DTMF, and the ways a call ends when nobody sends a BYE.

Call flows

The ordered steps of an inbound and an outbound call — and why the orders differ.

Routing plane

How a call is admitted, how a trunk is resolved, and what gets published.

Media pipeline

Codecs, SRTP, jitter, DTMF, and the ways a call ends without a BYE.

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