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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

Enabling Secure Real-time Protocol


While TLS is capable to encrypt the SIP signaling, it does nothing regarding the audio or video of calls. Someone can still eavesdrop on your calls and hear your conversations. There are many systems such as ucsniffer and wireshark that are able to sniff and record calls in local networks. To prevent this type of problem, you need to encrypt the RTP protocol. OpenSIPS has nothing to do with SRTP, and the phones are actually responsible for implementing SRTP. However, the key exchange often occurs over a TLS connection. There are different key exchange mechanisms for SRTP, and it is important to understand if phones are capable to interoperate encrypted calls. Here is a list of different key exchange mechanisms of SRTP.

SRTP-SDES

SDES is Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions. The key exchange occurs using fields in the SDP protocol. It is the most common way to implement SRTP and is found in the majority of IP phones and softphones in the market...