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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

Solving the SIP NAT traversal challenge


There are many ways to solve the NAT puzzle with many different types of NAT. So, for a beginner, the problem becomes very confusing We will see a table with the following valid methods of solving SIP for the NAT issue:

  • STUN: Simple traversal of UDP over NAT

  • TURN: Traversal of UDP over Relay NAT

  • ALG: Application Layer Gateways

  • MANUAL: Manual configuration (port forwarding)

  • UPNP: Universal Plug and Play

Method

STUN

TURN

ALG

MANUAL

UPNP

Symmetric NAT

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

It requires phone support?

Yes

No

No

No

No

Scalability

Good

Poor

Good

Good

Good

User effort

Small

Small

Small

High

Small

Reliability

Good

Good

Poor

Good

?

Industry support

Good

Good

Average

Good

Poor

Most customers use the NAT device (cable, DSL, or optical fiber) provided by its Internet Service Provider. Thus, for the residential market, we have to deal with whatever the customer has and support all kinds of NAT. For the commercial SIP trunk market...