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SIP Tutorials and Articles

Here we present a collection of papers, tutorials and special interest articles that have been submitted by members of The SIP community. The chief objective of The SIP Center is to provide a source of independent educational information about the SIP protocol and the myriad of associated topics. The authors of these papers help us to achieve this by providing specialized material to encourage readers to learn and further question the subjects presented here.

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SIP & E911

This is an introduction not an indepth analysis of NENA-National Emergency Number Association (www.nena.org) recommendations regarding IP/SIP and E911.
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SIP Trunking “Flash” Tutorial - SIP-T-SIP for Telephones: IP-to-PSTN via SS7 - RFC 3372

This is an introduction to SIP Trunking and connections for telephones and discussion of SIP telephony network with respect to the PSTN-Public Switched Telephone Network via SS7-Signaling System 7. This tutorial will present the various SS7 protocols used in PSTN signaling from a SIP phone. Read more >>>

SIPKnowledge Mini Tutorials Series

13. Call Park and Pickup

12. Voice Mail retrieval Notification... with SIP

11. Virtual Dating with SIP

10. Welcome to Chicago!

9. Automatic Conference

8. Missed Calls Notification

7. Mixed Media Interactive Communication

6. Movie-on-demand

5. See What I See

4. Remote Monitoring via SIP

3. SIP Call Redirection

2. SIP Silent Rejection Service

1. Personal/Selective Presence with SIP Presence and XML directives

SIP Tutorial

Here you can download the SIP Tutorial written by Dorgham Sisalem and Jiri Kuthan. In this tutorial you will learn:

What is IP Telephony.

Basics about IETFi standardization process.

Overview of IP Telephony signaling protocols.

What is SIP and how does it work.

Basics about available media codecs.

What is RTPi and how does it work.

Basics about IMSi and 3GPPi.

Basics about QoS.

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10 reasons to switch to an IP PBX - The benefits of replacing your old PBX with an IP PBX

SS7 monitoring solutions - development opportunities for lawful interception and CALEA Read the full article here >>>

SIP Essentials
By Thomas B. Cross – TECHtionary.com

The complete animated podcast is available at http://www.techtionary.com

SIP Basics – What is SIP and SIP Trunking?

Before jumping into the deep end of the pool, an introduction to SIP and SIP Trunking is important. SIP-Session Initiation Protocol is a "signaling" system for connecting, monitoring and disconnecting connections across the internet. A SIP Trunk is a network interface device that recognizes SIP signals and can process these signals to other SIP devices. SIP Trunking is provided by a Softswitch or SBC-Session Border Controller which provides, among other things, signal processing, protocol conversion, transcoding conversion, call routing, QoS-Quality of Service, AAA-Authorization, Authentication and Accounting functions as well as switching control interface to and from gateways. Read the full paper >>>

What is SIP and SIP Trunking in 37 Words

by Jeff Pelletier - Chief Engineer - SimpleSignal

Before jumping into the deep end of the pool, an introduction to SIP and SIP Trunking is important. Here’s the simplest, fastest definition we can come up with: SIP-Session Initiation Protocol is a "signaling" system for connecting, monitoring and disconnecting connections across the internet. If you prefer, Cisco explains SIP as, "defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request For Comment (RFC) 3261, SIP is a peer-to-peer, multimedia signaling protocol that integrates with other Internet services to deliver rich communications."

Read the full tutorial which explores the Top-10 "cool concepts" of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking

Cutting the Confusing Chatter about VoIP CODECs

What is NAT (Network Address Translation?) Why do we need ALG (Application Layer Gateway?) 964kb Powerpoint tutorial

A full version with the Voice Narration (4MB) is downloadable here >>>

By SIPKnowledge SIP Center Associate Sponsor

A very well written and descriptive tutorial on NAT and the traversal problems for SIP Networks.

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An Introduction to the IP Multimedia Subsystem – Part 1
By Matt Darby, Ubiquity Software Corporation.
http://www.ubiquitysoftware.com

This is the first article in a two-part series, introducing the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) standard as specified by the 3GPP. In this first part, we introduce the basic ideas and motivations behind IMS and some of the technical and commercial implications for the telecom industry. In part two, we will take a deeper technical look at individual IMS components, their interaction and interfaces.

What is IMS? Read the full article here...

Session Border Control in IMS - An analysis of the requirements for Session Border Control in IMS networks