Why You Need SIP Protocol for Voice Communications
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is the transport technology for person-to-person real time traffic over the Web. Its defining specifications come from the SIP working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. SIP provides access to the public switched telephone network for voice data at 3 kHz bandwidth and common number dialing using Voice over IP (VoIP). It can also be expanded to handle IP telephony in conjunction with video and instant messaging. Future enhancements will allow SIP applications like video conference calls, application sharing, home monitoring, and interactive gaming for businesses in Buffalo.
SIP is in most cases thought of as a means to emulate the functionality of common telephony over an IP network. It is replacing the older, less versatile protocols used in the old days such as H.323 and MGCP. These older protocols worked at a very low level to link IP phones to the public telephone system. SIP, on the other hand, provides a sophisticated and well-defined way to network the enterprise. For instance, SIP uses email addresses as the SIP address instead of a telephone number over the standard telephone network.
Before implementing a SIP plan in your organization, you should consider the proper settings of your corporate firewall to support SIP. Many of the common firewalls already installed in business offices are not developed to support the SIP protocol. First, SIP media streams are transferred over dynamically allocated UDP ports that are typically shut on firewalls. Second, SIP clients inside a firewall can not be accessed using IP addresses because these addresses are local and private to the LAN. Third, you need to ensure that either your T1 line broadband provider or Metro fiber provider is able to handle the SIP protocol from your internal network to the outside world. Your IT administrator will need to ascertain how to properly support SIP to overcome these technical issues. By adding a SIP proxy and registrar for managing the firewall, it is possible to deal with complex SIP situations for reliable and confidential communications.
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