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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

Building the solution


The solution for NAT is a little complex and requires several steps. We will split the solution into three pieces and a few steps for each segment in order to simplify the understanding:

  1. Installing STUN

  2. Solving the SIP signaling

  3. Using a media relay server

  4. Engaging a media relay server

Installing STUN

Simple traversal of UDP over NAT, or simply STUN, is the most common method for near-end NAT traversal. The IETF standardized STUN in three RFCs: 3489, 5389, and 7350. STUN is a near-end NAT traversal solution. STUN's biggest advantage is to fix addresses in the client side. Clients using STUN appear to the proxy as a client using a valid IP address. You do not require any extra configuration on the server. On the other hand, STUN does not work with symmetric NAT. The STUN protocol enables IP endpoints behind NAT to discover their external IP addresses, ports, and NAT type. Use STUN to discover if the client is in any of the following situations:

  • In an open Internet

  • Behind a firewall...