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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

OpenSIPS capabilities


OpenSIPS was originally intended to be a Class 4 SIP switch, but during its evolution along the years, OpenSIPS exceeded the original goal and started to provide Class 5 features. It is not able to offer a complete set of Class 5 features because of being limited to the SIP signaling-related features (that is, call forwarding, call transfer, call pickup, and so on). This limitation comes from the fact that OpenSIPS does not handle media, so it cannot offer media-related features. You can find the list of capabilities offered by OpenSIPS as follows:

Capabilities

Classes

Transport-level capabilities

  • UDP / TCP / TLS / SCTP / WebSockets support

  • IPv4 and IPv6

  • Multihomed with interface exchange

  • IP blacklists

Endpoint-oriented capabilities

  • SIP registration

  • NAT traversal (STUN, TURN, SIP pinging)

  • Digest authentication (against SQL, noSQL, AAA, LDAP)

  • Trunking or IP authentication

  • Complex call accounting/CDRs

  • Multidomain support

  • User profiles (groups, attributes, flags)

Class 4...