The GNU Gatekeeper is an open-source project that implements a H.323 gatekeeper. A gatekeeper provides call control services to H.323 endpoints and is an integral part of most useful Internet telephony installations that are based on the H.323 standard.
According to Recommendation H.323, a gatekeeper shall provide the following services:
- Address Translation
- Admissions Control
- Bandwidth Control
- Zone Management
- Call Control Signaling
- Call Authorization
- Bandwidth Management
- Call Management
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Features
- Cross-platform, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and other Operating systems
- A policy-based flexible routing mechanism
- Calling and called numbers rewriting, including CLI rewriting
- Full H.323 proxy, including RTP/RTCP media channels and T.120 data channels
- NAT traversal using a number of protocols, including H.460.18 and H.460.19
- Call retry / failover
- Clustering support by neighbors, parent/child, alternates GK
- TCP status port for monitoring and external call routing.
- H.235 security.
- Accounting and call authorization via SQL database, radius
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