Internet Communications Using SIP : Delivering VoIP and Multimedia Services With Session Initiation Protocol {2Nd Ed.}

Use Cases for P2P SIP 348 Disruption of the VoIP Infrastructure Model 349 Summary 350 References 351 Chapter 21 Conclusions and ...

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About 10 years ago, the first drafts describing the Session Initiation Protocol (1996) were published, with the rather modest am ...

With new communications technologies, there is always the temptation to mimic the old. E-mail inherited aspects of the interoffi ...

Acknowledgments xxiii We have enjoyed the benefit of early and significant support from colleagues and management in MCI. Vint C ...

We acknowledge countless helpful discussions and insight from many par- ticipants in the IETF and especially to Scott Bradner fo ...

Introduction xxv The second edition of Internet Communications Using SIPhad to be rewritten almost from the ground up, because o ...

has also proven to be the home network for other types of communications, information, entertainment, and data applications. To ...

Redefining Communications: Mobility, Emergency and Equal Access for the Disabled Internet communications have been known not to ...

access to the legacy telephone system, actually a voice gateway service between the Internet and TDM. The business model of most ...

The security threats on the Internet have provided well-justified concerns about the security of VoIP, and even more, the securi ...

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1 The telecommunications, television, and information technology (IT) network industries are all transformed by the Internet. Th ...

The mobile telephone networks have converged on a smaller number of standards in the second generation (2G) networks and in the ...

CATEGORY WHO PROTOCOLS STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES Closed IM islands Yahoo, MSN, SIP or other Internet Nonstandard with VoIP Google, AO ...

Another observation from Table 1.1 is that the strongest financing available is at present for closed networks (walled gardens), ...

Voice over IP Although the Internet has quickly established itself as the preeminent network for data, commercial transactions, ...

since any changes to a proprietary IM protocol may render the gateway close to useless. By contrast, SIP-based communications of ...

The Short History of SIP [1] By 1996, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) had already developed the basics for multimedia ...

Table 1-2 (continued) NAME FIRST RFC CHARTER enum 2000 DNS-based use of ITU-T E.164 telephone numbers sipping 2002 Applications ...