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Cisco Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers
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Cisco Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers

by Denise Donohue, David Mallory, Ken Salhoff
August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
15h 51m
English
Cisco Press
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Chapter 4. Session Initiation Protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard call control protocol, based on research at Columbia University by Henning Schulzrinne and his team. The first SIP RFC, number 2543, was published in 1999. Since then, much work has been done, and numerous RFCs have been published to solidify and extend SIP capabilities.

SIP is designed to provide signaling and session management for voice and multimedia connections over packet-based networks. It is a peer-to-peer protocol with intelligent endpoints and distributed call control, such as H.323. Gateways that use SIP do not depend on a call agent, although the protocol does define several functional entities that help ...

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