In our last VoIP installment, we looked at the main reasons why SIP has become a widely adopted protocol, but we left details of the protocol’s inner workings fairly vague. This article will drill ...

Broadcasting over IP is rapidly becoming the paradigm by which broadcasters are planning future broadcast network infrastructures. Within the diverse range of broadcast IP devices coming onto the ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), with its promise of serving as a single global signaling standard, has mushroomed in importance for networking in the past year. But it may be years from adoption ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a control (signaling) protocol developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to manage interactive multimedia IP sessions including IP telephony, ...

Deployment of voice-over-IP endpoints, such as Session Initiation Protocol phones and H.323 IP PBXs, within corporations has presented IT with new interoperability challenges. A new breed of network ...

How it's used: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) manages communications sessions across an IP network. It locates participants for a session using a user's SIP URL (similar to an e-mail address), ...

What's VoIP's Big Security Problem? SIP Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a must for voice over IP (VoIP) communication. But by itself, SIP is insecure and easily hacked. Here's what you need to ...

This article originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of SD&I magazine. The “network-everywhere” methodology has infiltrated our lives and most of us are attempting to negotiate a network connection ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol that is used to set up, modify, and terminate a session between two endpoints. SIP can be used to set up a two-party call, a multi-party call, ...