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SIP Residential Presentation (Cisco)hot!

01.12.2002

SIP Market Overview (Data Connections)hot!

01.09.2004

Executive Summary

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is continuing to develop rapidly and it is difficult to keep up with all of its innovations and uses. This white paper is aimed at people who want to understand the concepts and drivers behind SIP adoption, and how it is evolving to face new challenges. This paper summarizes where SIP has come from, how it works, and what makes it such a useful protocol. It then describes how SIP is used in applications including telephony, conferencing and messaging, and how it is being extended to provide innovative services and accommodate the requirements of real-world deployment, where NATs, service level agreements and regulators exist. In covering this broad range of SIP-related topics, it provides a summary of the state of this increasingly important protocol.

SIP at the Desktop - Intelligence to the Edge (Mitel)hot!

01.09.2001

The development of VoIP has been characterized by a perpetual battle to deliver the full-range of applications end users and service providers want, while balancing that with manageability and a straightforward design that eases deployment and development. One protocol that has fit that bill is the IETF's session initiation protocol (SIP).

SIP - The Session Initian Protocol for Enterprise SIP Solutions (Siemens)hot!

13.10.2004

Introduction

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of SIP â_" Session Initiation Protocol within the enterprise.

This paper summarizes where SIP has come from, how it works, and what makes it such a useful enabling protocol. It then describes how SIP is used in applications including telephony, conferencing and messaging, back office integration and how it is being extended to provide innovative services and accommodate the requirements of a real time IP communication.

From an application point of view SIP is continuing to develop rapidly and is innovative as we continue to envision all of its uses for home and business. This white paper is aimed at people who want to understand the concepts and drives behind SIP adoption and how it is evolving to support new enterprise business applications.

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and MCI AdvantageÂR White Paperhot!

01.06.2003

Global IP communications over the Internet is probably the most significant development since the emergence of telephone networks over 120 years ago. In this paper, we explore the new communication services enabled by the Internet, including examples of new and potential services.

Session border controllers (Acme Packet)hot!

07.07.2003

Regardless of opportunity, interactive communication over IP networks must be able to reach anyone, anywhere, anytime to maximize its value. To paraphrase Metcalfe's Law: the usefulÂ-ness, or utility, of interactive cormnunication equals the square of the number of users. New interactive communication services and applications, therefore, must ultimately span business and consumer, wired and wireless networks.

Consequently, simply building standalone voice, video and multimedia over IP network islands is not sufficient. They must be built and interconnected in a way that ensures security and peak performance end-to-end. Businesses and consumers will be satisfied with - and pay good money for - nothing less.

Secure IP Telepony for the Enterprisehot!

11.05.2005

Security is an important consideration when implementing VoIP because each element in the VoIP infrastructure, accessible on the network like any computer, can be attacked or used as a launching point for deeper attacks. In addition, VoIP presents certain specific security challenges. Lastly, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a new application protocol for VoIP and the firewall must understand this protocol to properly enforce the companyâ_Ts security policies.

Pingtel and Check Point offer a VoIP solution that addresses these concerns. This white paper discusses both the issues, and proposed solutions.

sbmain_elab_NAT_for_sip_centerhot!

05.04.2006

NAT traversal with SIP

Homepage: www.sipknowledge.com/elearn.html

Robustness testing of SIP implementations (Codenomicon)hot!

18.11.2003

Introduction

SIP[4] will be a part of future IP telephony infrastructure, raising new security concerns and issues. As past experience has shown, a majority of these problems are due to software vulnerabilities. One class of software vulnerabilities is introduced during implementation, in the coding process, due to non-robust handling of input data. An example listing of vulnerability types and failures is in Table 1.

One way to counter these vulnerabilities is to do white box testing and to perform code audits. This white paper discusses this process.

QoS Testing in the VoIP Environment (Empirix)hot!

14.03.2006

In recent years, the business world has reaped tremendous benefits from the many exciting products and applications made possible by the marriage of data and voice technologies. Now, the efficiencies and enhanced services resulting from that revolution are being enhanced by the magnitude of change possible as data networks become the transport for voice. IP Telephony, or Voice over IP (VoIP), is the exploding new technology enabling voice to be carried over IP-based, packet-switched local and wide area networks.

Now the efficiencies and enhanced services resulting from that revolution are being eclipsed by the magnitude of change possible as data networks become the transport for voice. The open standards approach adopted within the voice over IP world has meant that public and private network operators are now able to remove their dependence on buying everything from one vendor that was a fact of life in the closed/proprietary nature of the traditional circuit- switched world. Other advantages that have attracted a lot of attention include the ability to bypass the PSTN and its toll charges,applications made possible by merging voice with Internet data,lower operating expenses,and network service presence.

Overview of H.323 - SIP Interworking (Radvision)hot!

16.05.2001

Looking at IP networks and VoIP, it is clear that both protocols - SIP and H.323 - are widely deployed and here to stay. For carriers wishing to provide global VoIP services, the interconnection of these disparate networks into a unified VoIP network is an urgent and high priority. The SIP-H.323 InterWorking Function (IWF) has been defined as a logical entity that allows the interworking between the SIP and H.323 protocols. This includes call sequence mapping, message parameter mapping, translation between H.245 and SDP, state machines, and the handling of different call procedures.

This paper looks at the issues and challenges of the IWF and presents a number of approaches for achieving the necessary functionality.

Open Source IP Communicationshot!

12.05.2005

SIPXchange, the industryâ_Ts first open source Enterprise communications suite, combines the cost savings of voice-over-IP technology with the quality and adaptability of open source software created by a community of developers; itâ_Ts a solution that can improve a business exponentially. Using an open source solution, companies are no longer forced to pay licensing fees for software or premiums for proprietary hardware and software.

While companies will pay less for licensing, they will continue to receive the Enterprise-grade support they get from traditional vendors, including software additions, service level agreements, and additional services such as training. If there is a failure, companies will have the ability to call and resolve the issue. Guaranteed service contracts will make open source the low risk solution for wide adoption in an Enterprise environment.

One Click Management for VoIPhot!

15.05.2007

Codima Toolbox delivers unrivalled pre assessment and post deployment VoIP testing and readiness for VoIP networks from beginning to end. This includes network pre assessment tools, traffic simulation, post deployment monitoring and troubleshooting combined with modules for Flow analyzing, RTP analyzing and Call Playback as well as inventory and visual mapping tools. Flexible and scalable Codima Toolbox is a set of tools easy to integrate, combine and scale ensuring successful VoIP implementations.

Homepage: http://www.codimatech.com

NexTone SBC Attack Performance Test (CT Labs)hot!

11.09.2006

CT Labs was commissioned by NexTone to verify SIP call-handling performance of the NexTone MSC session border controller (SBC) product while subjected to various real-world attacks. The test involved generating high levels of valid real-world SIP-based VoIP traffic while launching attacks against the SBC, including denial of service (DoS) and other malicious attacks designed to disrupt SIP-based services.

Homepage: www.ct-labs.com

Navigating the Complexities of IMS (Empirix)hot!

07.09.2006

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is moving the communications industry towards a new business model. No longer are proprietary solutions with long development cycles and network-centric applications the solution for the network equipment manufacturer or service provider community to enable feature-rich services. Traditionally, end user, network, testing/monitoring, and maintenance applications have been dictated by the access and network infrastructure equipment capabilities and feature sets. These applications have been integrated into the legacy equipment and the ability to customize has been extremely limited. However, these applications due to their proprietary and static nature and long development timeframes are very reliable and provide a high quality end user experience. This quality and reliability needs to be duplicated in the IMS environment and applied to real-time, next-generation applications but in a much quicker timeframe across diverse networks and devices.