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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

Usage scenarios for OpenSIPS


The huge set of features provided by the modules combined with the powerful routing script makes OpenSIPS the best candidate for almost any SIP-related scenario.

From simple traffic switching to complex residential or trunking scenarios, from the ingress to egress of your network, OpenSIPS is able to cope with the requirements in an efficient and scalable way.

This chapter does not aim to list all the possible usage scenarios for OpenSIPS but just to scratch the surface, show the most popular usage scenarios, and give some reference points when it comes to what you can do with OpenSIPS. Let's take the classical SIP network as a case study, which typically consists of an ingress, a core, and an egress. We will inspect each of these sides in order to see what OpenSIPS can do for them.

The ingress side

In a SIP network, the ingress component sits between the SIP endpoints (registering SIP phones, SIP PBX, and SIP trunks) and the SIP core platform.

Due to its location...