Charles,
presence of the Gatekeeper introduces simple benefit to the H.323 network - manageability. Now, in your "dynamic" configuration, you can freely move your gateways around, change their IP addresses, change supported services, aliases, phone numbers and so on, and the only entity which should be aware of all these changes is Gatekeeper - also please note that it can be updated automatically via RAS messages. It means that when you do have a Gatekeeper, anyone who needs to place calls inside of your network, or anyone who will call into your network from outside need not to be aware of any changes in gateway configurations. Additionally, Gatekeeper might provide a wealth of add-on services, like line or group hunting (when it will look for available gateway among the group which can terminate your call) and others.
Anatoli
"Agboh, Charles" wrote:
I am not sure if this is the place to ask this question but I would like some comments on the following.
in a static configuration I have H.323 gateways deployed with no gatekeeper in a dynamic configuration I have the static configuation with a gatekeeper. What are the advantages of the dynamic configuration over the static configuration.
regards,
charles
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