Session initiation protocol (SIP) promises to turn the internet we know today into a fully-fledged multimedia communications network, says John Delaney, senior analyst at Ovum. Session initiation protocol (SIP) is the key.
It is already possible to integrate with the company directory or public directories to determine the identity of the caller. SIP should allow the much-maligned interactive voice response (IVR) systems of many a bank or local council to be...
This information is translated into data packets, which are routed across the network with all the other data traffic. This is possible in part because of the emerging SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) open standard, which provides a mechanism for...
The market for voice over IP - the routing of phone calls over data networks - is finally taking hold after many years of talk thanks in part to the emergence of a standard known as Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP.
Well, there is, and it's called SIP, or session initiation protocol. SIP allows session profiles to be stored, documentation to be shared and sessions to be set up and torn down much quicker than traditional conferencing channels.
This is because many VoIP systems use the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which provides addresses for IP telephony users in the same way email servers provide addresses. Handling current threats such as denial of service attacks is relatively...