What's the Difference Between VoIP Gateway and ATA?

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What is a VoIP Gateway?

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol is a packet-based technology for transmitting digitized voice over an Ethernet/IP network.
A VoIP gateway is a networking device that converts a traditional (legacy) phone signal (analog or digital) into a (digitized) packet-based, Internet Protocol (IP) communication stream. 

What is an ATA?

An analog telephone adapter (ATA) is a device for connecting traditional analog telephone system or a voice over IP telephony network.
An ATA is often built into a small enclosure with an internal or external power adapter, an Ethernet port, and one or more foreign exchange station (FXS) telephone ports. Such devices may also have a foreign exchange office (FXO) interface for providing alternative access to traditional land line telephone service.

Differences Between VoIP Gateway and ATA

New Rock products include two types of VoIP gateways: analog gateways and digital gateways. The analog gateways also may be called as ATA. 

Analog Gateway (ATA) 
The MX series analog media gateway connects the TMD network to the SIP or MGCP based VoIP network. Modular designed 2 to 96 FXS and FXO port configuration, up to 500 routing rules allowed, high availability (HA) and PSTN failover are amount the popular features. It allows registration of up to 96 SIP/IMS trunking accounts.

SIP-ISDN Trunking Gateway (Digital Gateway)

The MX100G-S SIP-ISDN trunking gateway offers a solution to the challenge of connecting the legacy ISDN-PRI world to the SIP based voice carrier networks through 1/2/4 E1/T1 ports. It allows registration of up 512 SIP/IMS trunking accounts.