SIP Session Initiation Protocol

Posted in E-Commerce, Instant Messenger, VoIP Fanatics by wayne.porter on August 20th, 2007

This will be coming up more and more so for the neophytes out there who ask- What is SIP as it relates to VoIP? SIP is an acronym for Session Initiation Protocol…or:

An application-layer control protocol, a Signaling protocol for Internet Telephony. SIP can establish sessions for features such as audio/videoconferencing, interactive gaming, and call forwarding to be deployed over IP networks thus enabling service providers to integrate basic IP telephony services with Web, e-mail, and chat services. Learn more at voip-architecture.com

(Session Initiation Protocol) Used for setting up communications sessions on the Internet, such as telephony, presence, events notification and instant messaging. The protocol initiates call setup, routing, authentication and other feature messages to endpoints within an IP domain. More at Engin.com.au

Short for Session Initiation Protocol, SIP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard protocol for initiating an interactive user session that involves multimedia elements such as video, voice, chat, gaming, and virtual reality. SIP works in the Application layer of the OSI communications model. Per NetworkMagazineIndia.

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a multimedia and telephony protocol that provides services including call forwarding, number delivery, authentication and other telecoms applications. The protocol can set up, control and tear down sessions including internet telephone calls and multimedia conferences. via computeractive.co.uk

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