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hairpin
Last modified: Monday, February 28, 2005
In
VoIP, hairpin (or
hairpining) is the means to send a call back in the direction that it came from.
If a
call cannot be routed over IP to a
gateway that is closer to the target
telephone, the call typically is sent back out the local zone the same way from
which it came.
