SIP PRIMER
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SIP is a protocol that establishes, modifies, and terminates multimedia sessions like internet phone calls. It works between the session and application layers and can work with both IPv4 and IPv6. SIP provides functions for user location, availability, capabilities, session setup, and management. It is a flexible protocol that allows developers to build additional features.
SIP PRIMER
- 1. (SIP) - Session Initiated Protocol: SIP in a Nutshell: SIP is a primitive in that it does not provide services; it provides a conduit for services. SIP does not determine what services are being sent back and forth, nor does it affect how information is passed. Whatever delivers it radio waves, wired-networks, satellites, etc., SIP only needs to be able to communicate. … T C P P o r t 5 0 6 0 o r U D P P o r t 5 0 6 0 , SIP is a text-based protocol, but also carries a lot of non-text information. “SIP is an application-layer control protocol that can establish, modify, and terminate multimedia sessions (conferences) such as Internet telephony calls SIP uses request/response transactions. The “session,” however, is not a maintained connection as many enterprises have come to think of sessions. SIP works between the session and application layersof the OSI model and is not confined to any one IP version. This means that it can work in and between IPv4 and IPv6 models. SIP as flexible as possible, most of SIP's message and header field syntax is derived from the HTTP/1.1 specification, but is not tied to the HTTP/1.1 protocol. The SIP typically will use the Real-Time Session Protocol (RTSP) to provide transportation and quality of service (QoS) feedback for streaming media. Other standardized protocols control access to the public-switched telephone network, as well as describing multimedia sessions. The key to SIP is that it provides only five functions: 1) User location 2) User availability 3) User capabilities 4) Session setup 5) Session management That is all SIP does. SIP is flexible and open enough to allow developers to build their own “hooks” into SIP. This flexibility has given SIP an advantage over other “telecommunications protocols,” and is why many enterprises are eager to its large presence in IP-based multimedia communications architectures.