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Conferencing over IP
     
         (CoIP) The {IMTC} Activity Group
        trying to standardise {IP Telephony} through the use of
        {ITU-T} {H.323}.
     
        The VoIP forum of the {IMTC} merged with the H.323 Activity
        Group in January 1999 to form the Conferencing over IP (CoIP)
        Activity Group.
     
        VoIP uses "VoIP Devices" as {gateways} to {route} voice
        {packets} over the Internet or {PSTN}.  It uses {protocols}
        such as {SGCP} and its successor {MGCP}.
     
        {Home (http://www.imtc.org/act_coipbody.htm)}.
     
        (1999-03-17)