SIP Primer Training Courses - Session Initiation Protocol

SIP Primer ** Duration: 1 day

Course Content

SIP is the exciting new IETF signalling protocol used to set up and control telephony/media sessions between users on the Internet or IP based networks. While the basic operations are simple and straightforward, SIP is a sophisticated and functionally rich protocol.

Course Objectives

Provide an understanding of the architecture, components and functions of the SIP suite

Appreciate SIP's strengths, reliability, performance, separation, extensibility, modularity and simplicity

Who Should Attend

Pre- and post sales and support engineers in vendor organisations

Software and hardware engineers and technical professionals from carriers, ISPs, system vendors and integrators or end-users developing or deploying real-time services over IP networks

Technical planners, developers and network managers in service providers and corporates

Prerequisites

Delegates must have gained a fair understanding of IP and voice networks.

Course Outline

Historical Context

The emergence of multimedia and service support over IP

Toll by pass and Internet telephony solutions

IETF and SIP development

The status of SIP proposals and drafts

SIP architecture

User agents and network servers

Registration and the function of SIP registrars

Call setup

The basic transaction

Proxy and redirect modes

The use of methods

SIP messages

First line syntax and requests or responses

Message header types - Generic, request, response and entity

Commonly used headers and their purpose

Message body and Session Description Protocol

Basic call transfer mechanisms, including the proposed REFER method

Security summary

Support for authorisation, authentication and encryption in SIP

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