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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

Overview of this book

OpenSIPS is a multifunctional, multipurpose signalling SIP server. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is nowadays the most important VoIP protocol and OpenSIPS is the open source leader in VoIP platforms based on SIP. OpenSIPS is used to set up SIP Proxy servers. The purpose of these servers is to receive, examine, and classify SIP requests. The whole telecommunication industry is changing to an IP environment, and telephony as we know it today will completely change in less than ten years. SIP is the protocol leading this disruptive revolution and it is one of the main protocols on next generation networks. While a VoIP provider is not the only kind of SIP infrastructure created using OpenSIPS, it is certainly one of the most difficult to implement. This book will give you a competitive edge by helping you to create a SIP infrastructure capable of handling tens of thousands of subscribers. Starting with an introduction to SIP and OpenSIPS, you will begin by installing and configuring OpenSIPS. You will be introduced to OpenSIPS Scripting language and OpenSIPS Routing concepts, followed by comprehensive coverage of Subscriber Management. Next, you will learn to install, configure, and customize the OpenSIPS control panel and explore dialplans and routing. You will discover how to manage the dialog module, accounting, NATTraversal, and other new SIP services. The final chapters of the book are dedicated to troubleshooting tools, SIP security, and advanced scenarios including TCP/TLS support, load balancing, asynchronous processing, and more. A fictional VoIP provider is used to explain OpenSIPS and by the end of the book, you will have a simple but complete system to run a VoIP provider.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Implementing SIP Services

The usual role of OpenSIPS is a SIP proxy. In this role, a SIP server—in most cases—can only route requests and replies between user agents. In this chapter, we will explain how to implement SIP services such as call forward and call transfer in this type of an environment. This chapter uses the best practices document RFC 5359, Session Initiation Protocol Service Examples, and assumes that endpoints and gateways support the required RFCs.

One important aspect regarding OpenSIPS is that it does not handle media or RTP. Thus, even simple services such as playing an announcement require an external media server. The most common media servers in use with OpenSIPS are Asterisk™, FreeSWITCH™, and SEMS. In this chapter, you will learn how to implement a series of SIP services integrating OpenSIPS with a media server. We have chosen Asterisk because of its popularity and simplicity.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Distinguishing where you...