An H.248 media gateway (MG) may be connected to multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) domains in various ways. The connection is typically realized via H.248 IP terminations, but there could also be other types of H.248 ephemeral terminations due to the nature of the MPLS protocol architecture. A basic MPLS building block is the so-called "Label Switched Path" (LSP), see [IETF RFC 3031]. The LSP binds MPLS domains and H.248 MGs because LSPs are associated with H.248 ephemeral terminations. This is the basic application of the H.248 mplspackage.