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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 Transport Layer Security


The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is a security protocol able to protect the communication for web, e-mail, and many other systems. TLS is negotiated hop by hop, so it is possible to have TLS-UDP-TLS connections. This protocol provides you with privacy and data integrity between two applications. This occurs by authentication, encryption, and integrity protection protocols. The detailed explanation of TLS is beyond the scope of this book. You can search for detailed information in RFC 5246 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246). Here, we will focus on how to apply TLS to your scripts and give you an example on how to implement it in popular softphones. Refer to your client device's manufacturer for details on how to use TLS in a particular IP phone or ATA.

To enable TLS, we will have to follow these steps:

  1. Compile OpenSIPS with the proto_tls module.

  2. Add the appropriate statements to the configuration script.

  3. Create the certificate authority keys in...