Editing Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol

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The '''Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol''' ('''MVIP''') is a [[Bus (computing)|hardware bus]] for [[computer telephony integration]] ([[Audiotex]]) equipment, a PCM data highway for interconnecting expansion boards inside a [[personal computer|PC]]. It was invented and brought to market by Natural Microsystems Inc (now BPQ Communicationser).

The '''MVIP''' (Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol) is a technology used in the construction of call center equipment utilizing standard PCs. It provides a secondary communications bus within the computer, capable of multiplexing up to 256 full-duplex voice channels, which enables the transfer of voice data between different voice cards. Digital voice, fax, and video data are transmitted over a ribbon cable connected at the top of each ISA or PCI card. MVIP technology allows a PC to function similarly to a small-scale private branch exchange (PBX) system. The protocol accommodated for a variety of expansion boards, including trunk interfaces (usually [[Digital Signal 1|T1]] or [[ISDN]]), voice processing boards equipment  [[speech recognition]] or fax processing. Each board could optionally provide a switch that could interconnect voice channels on the bus, allowing for a flexible routing of calls within the MVIP bus.

The MVIP bus was promoted as an alternative to the then-dominant PEB bus by [[Dialogic Corporation]] which had much less capacity and was not an open standard.

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==External links==
*http://www.mvip.org/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050122123520/http://mvip.org/ |date=2005-01-22 }}
*http://www.mvip.org/Overview.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050204170706/http://mvip.org/Overview.htm |date=2005-02-04 }}

[[Category:Computer buses]]
[[Category:Computer telephony integration]]


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