Session Initiation Protocol

SIP is one of the most important VoIP signaling protocols operating in the application layer . SIP can perform both unicast and multicast sessions and supports user mobility. SIP handles signals and idenitifies user location , call setup, call termination and busy signals. SIP can use multicast to support conference calls and use the Session Description Protocol(SDP) to negotiate parameters.

SIP Components
Although SIP works in conjunction with other technologies and protocols, there are two fundamental components that are used by the Session Initiation Protocol:
■User agents, which are endpoints of a call (i.e., each of the participants in a call)

■ SIP servers, which are computers on the network that service requests from clients, and send back responses

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