Image 4 - Inbound and Outbound dial-peers for a POTS to POTS call
Voice Dial-Peer Types
POTS
Plain Old Telephony Service dial-peers are matched for analog connections such as Analog FXS,
FXO, ISDN T1 / E1s, E1 R2, and Ear and Mouth (E&M) connections.
These send or receive a call to / from a physical voice-port on the gateway.
VOIP
Voice Over IP dial-peers are used to mainly control H323 and SIP connections to and from the
gateway.
These dial-peers send and receive signaling from both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as well as Fully
Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) using Domain Name System (DNS).
VoIP dial-peers can also be used for Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR), Voice over ATM
(VoATM), Voice over High-Level Data Link Control (VoHDLC) and Registration, Admission,
and Status (RAS) signaling and session targets for these dial-peers can also include settlements and
ENUM values.
Note: Some of these types of configurations are older technologies not seen in newer networks and
with Cisco IOS XE some are no longer supported. As a result they are not be covered in this
document.
