
Sip
Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol
Alan B. Johnston(Author)
Artech House Publishers
2nd Edition
Published on 14. November 2003
Book
Hardback
267 pages
978-1-58053-655-4 (ISBN)
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Description
This revised edition of "SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol" gives you a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this revolutionary protocol for call signalling and IP telephony. The second edition includes brand new discussions on the use of SIP for wireless multimedia communications. It explains how SIP is powerful "rendezvous" protocol that leverages mobility and presence to allow users to communicate using different devices, modes and services anywhere they are connected to the Internet. You learn why SIP has been chosen by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Program for wireless cell phones) as the core signalling, presence and instant messaging protocol.
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Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwood
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-58053-655-4 (9781580536554)
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E-Book
01/2003
1st Edition
Artech House
€78.99
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Person
Alan B. Johnston is a distinguished technical member at MCI and an adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a B.E.(Hons) in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. He is a co-author of the new SIP specification RFC 3261 and several other SIP-related RFCs.
Content
SIP and the Internet; introduction to SIP; SIP clients and servers; SIP request messages; SIP response messages; header fields; related protocols; comparison to H.323; wireless and mobility; call flow examples; future directions. Appendices: changes in the SIP specification from RFC 2543 to RFC 3261.