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Chapter 1 Introduction
Overview
With years of Internet telephony and router manufacturing experience, PLANET proudly introduces the
newest member of the PLANET VoIP gateway family: the VIP-480/VIP-880 series.
The PLANET VoIP Gateway is fully both SIP and H.323 standard compliant residential gateway that
provides a total solution for integrating voice-data network and the Public Switched Telephone Network
(PSTN), not only provides quality voice communications, but also offers secure, reliable Internet
sharing capabilities for daily voice and Internet communications.
With advanced DSP processor (TI) and cutting edge VoIP technology, the PLANET VoIP Gateway is
capable of handling both SIP and the H.323 calls. Up to 4/8 registrations to the SIP proxy or H.323
Gatekeeper, the VoIP Gateway are able to make calls to either H.323 or SIP voice communication
environment. The VoIP Gateway is equipped with LAN port Ethernet switch and built-in NAT router
function that provides Internet access using only one IP address; with these features, users may now
enjoy high quality voice calls and secure Internet access without interfering with routine activities.
Meanwhile, the PLANET VoIP Gateway is designed for comfort, ease-of-use with a sophisticated, and
satisfaction from customers, VoIP Gateway not only inherits traditions of quality voice communications
and real-time fax data over IP networks, but VoIP Gateway also eliminates the human resource VoIP
network deployment. With optimized H.323/SIP architecture, PLANET VoIP Gateway is the ideal
choices for P2P voice chat, ITSP cost-saving solution, but also provide network-converting feature to
translate the packet network into traditional PBX system.
With built-in PPPoE/DHCP/DDNS clients, up to 4/8 concurrent connections in VoIP Gateway, voice
communications can be established from anywhere around the world. PLANET VoIP Gateway comes
with intuitive user-friendly, yet powerful management interface (web/telnet), that can dramatically
reduce IT personnel resource, and complete VoIP deployment in a short time, plus remote
management capability, VoIP administrators can monitor machine/network status, or proceed
maintenance/trouble-shooting service via Internet browser or telnet session.
Besides, it provides voice channels status display and optimized packet voice streaming over managed
and public (Internet) IP networks.
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