White Paper Abstract:
This document describes that cisco gatekeepers are used to group gateways into logical zones and perform call routing between them. Gateways are responsible for edge routing decisions between the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the H.323 network. Cisco gatekeepers handle the core call routing among devices in the H.323 network and provide centralized dial plan administration. Without a Cisco gatekeeper, explicit IP addresses for each terminating gateway would have to be configured at the originating gateway and matched to a Voice over IP (VoIP) dial-peer. With a Cisco gatekeeper, gateways query the gatekeeper when trying to establish VoIP calls with remote VoIP gateways.