From H.245 tunneling to separate connection?

Paul Long Plong@SMITHMICRO.COM writes:

Why would an EP ever want to switch from H.245 tunneling to a separate H.245 connection? What possible use could there be in such a thing?

The H.245 might be handled by a different box than the Q.931? I think Paul Sijben from Lucent presented a scenario, where Q.931 was handled by a MGC and H.245 by MG. (He also presented quite many reasons why nobody would really implement such a scenario.) Another possibility would be a distributed MC, where the Q.931 is handled by one box and H.245 by other ones.

Pekka Pessi