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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS - Second Edition
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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS - Second Edition

by Flavio E. Goncalves, Flavio E Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS - Second Edition

Solving the SIP NAT traversal challenge

There are many ways to solve the NAT puzzle with many different types of NAT. So, for a beginner, the problem becomes very confusing We will see a table with the following valid methods of solving SIP for the NAT issue:

  • STUN: Simple traversal of UDP over NAT
  • TURN: Traversal of UDP over Relay NAT
  • ALG: Application Layer Gateways
  • MANUAL: Manual configuration (port forwarding)
  • UPNP: Universal Plug and Play

Method

STUN

TURN

ALG

MANUAL

UPNP

Symmetric NAT

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

It requires phone support?

Yes

No

No

No

No

Scalability

Good

Poor

Good

Good

Good

User effort

Small

Small

Small

High

Small

Reliability

Good

Good

Poor

Good

?

Industry support

Good

Good

Average

Good

Poor

Most ...

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ISBN: 9781785280610