[afnog] VoIP

Mark Tinka mtinka at africaonline.co.sz
Mon Aug 15 17:36:45 EAT 2005


On Monday 15 August 2005 11:57, byaruhj at mtn.co.ug wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I was just reading thru ur mail again and noticed
> something I hadn't quite read earlier.
>
> Tell me more about SIP, and SIP standard software for
> IP Phones.

If you don't mind me chiming in...

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is an alternative to 
H.323, MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol) a.k.a 
H.248/Megaco, e.t.c. It's defined under RFC 3261.

You can read up on SIP's basic features and functionality 
at:

http://searchenterprisevoice.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid66_gci541639,00.html

and:

http://www.networkcomputing.com/1416/1416f1.html

and:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt

Cheers,

Mark.

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