Topic: Session Initiation Protocol

Author’s Name: Arjit Johri

Co-author’s Name: Manasvi Shah

Institue Name: SVKM’S NMIMS MPSTME Shirpur Campus, Bablulde bank

of Tapi river, Mumbai Agra road, Shirpur, District: Dhulia, Maharashtra –
425405.

Email id: johriarjit@yahoo.co.in, manasvishah@gmail.com.

Keywords: SIP, Additional savings and cost cutting, VOIP

ABSTRACT

SIP-based applications are scalable and easy to manage. They are readily available,
affordable and there are many to choose from. Developers are offering SMB’s ones that
include features to simplify communications and improve productivity. Deploying SIP offers
additional savings because voice and data converge on one pipe, eliminating the cost of
separate phone and data networks. SIP applications bridge the gap by connecting smart-
phones, soft-phones, computers and other IP-enabled devices, managing them with software
that includes basic features like forwarding, busy or out-of-office responses and conference
calling. In this paper, we have highlighted the basic technology involved in SIP and how it
functions with a large number of these IP related protocols.

BACKGROUND AND SCOPE

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signalling protocol used for establishing sessions in
an IP network. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has become a strong, catalytic force shaping
today's telecom industry. SIP is a simple toolkit that service providers can use to build
converged voice and multimedia services. This Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
driven protocol represents a key ingredient in the converging world of telecommunications
based applications. SIP's main purpose is to help session originators deliver invitations to
potential session participants wherever they may be.

HYPOTHESIS

Clearly, SIP is an important protocol that is becoming widely deployed. SIP is a catalytic
protocol that delivers key signaling elements, which can turn a voice over IP network into a
true IP communications network - a network capable of delivering next generation converged
services. SIP is powerful, and yet simple. Using SIP, telephony becomes another web
application and integrates easily into other Internet services.