A distributed audio conference bridge refers to an architecture in which one or more TDM to VoIP media gateways are connected to a centrally located VoIP based audio conference bridge. For example, one could deploy 1000 port media gateways in 10 different cities and deploy a centrally located 10,000 port SIP/VoIP based conference bridge. People in different cities are a given a local DID that terminates on the local gateway. The gateway converts the voice signal from TDM format to packet based VoIP format. Such VoIP signals are then carried over a private data network that supports QoS towards the VoIP based conference bridge. The bridge in turn does the audio mixing needed for audio conferencing.

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