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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

Understanding OpenSIPS


OpenSIPS is an open source, GPLed, multipurpose SIP server that is able to perform a large set of SIP-related functions, such as SIP Registrar, SIP proxy/router, Instant Messaging server, Presence server, SIP Redirect server, SIP load balancer or SIP Dispatcher, SIP Back-to-Back user agent, Call Queuing System, SIP IP gateway, SIP media controller, SIP application server, and many others.

OpenSIPS defines itself via the following three major capabilities:

  • Performance: It is translated into a huge throughput actively measured up to 60,000 calls per second, 1.5 million simultaneous calls, 5 million registered users, and 1 million TCP connections, all in a single OpenSIPS instance running on a mid-level server

  • Feature-rich: It is translated into more than 160 modules providing functionalities or features related to the SIP protocol, SQL or NoSQL DB operations, AAA integrations, routing algorithms (quality, prefix, load-based routing, and dial plans), management and control...