SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation

SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol Alan B. Johnston
Publisher: Artech House Publishers

Professor Henning Schulzrinne co-designed the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) along with Professor Mark Handley. The Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, has always seemed like one of those terms that people sort of understand – but not really. If you have to dial a 1 or a 9 before you make a phone call, you might as well be using smoke signals to communicate. But the most important for your business right now is SIP. The telephony system works via a cog and wheel setup. Session Initiation Protocol or SIP refers specifically to a language that various computers can communicate to one another in so that they can complete voice calls. (1) Short for Session Initiation Protocol, it is an application-layer control protocol; a signaling protocol for Internet Telephony. Alteva announced the launch of its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking solution. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is an IETF standard multimedia conferencing protocol, which includes voice, video, and data conferencing, for use over. In the world of technology, there seem to be too many acronyms to keep track of.