Syllabus

This is an introductory course in the Session Initiation Protocol. The topics covered by this course are the following:

An overview of SIP including the key features and standardization history.
The addressing components used by SIP: the SIP Uniform Resource Identifier.
The SIP functionality.
The SIP entities: user agent (client and server), proxy server, registrar, redirect server and back-to-back user agent.
The SIP protocol: functional layers, messages, methods and status codes, headers, the Session Description Protocol (SDP) body, SIP transactions and SIP dialogs.
The SIP extensions: overview, new methods and examples.
An overview of Peer-to-Peer SIP.

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Last updated: February 20, 2013