Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

1 Days / 2 Live Online Sessions (0900-1230) / Technical Level: Level 2

Course Code: MB1401

Course Summary

This course provides an understanding of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Session Description Protocol (SDP) and the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and their roles in establishing multimedia communications over an IP-based network. It also provides a detailed understanding of SIP architectures and identifies the roles and functions of a variety of SIP server types.

Who would benefit

Those requiring a detailed understanding of the operation of the SIP and related protocols.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of IP, UDP and TCP is an advantage.

Topic Areas Include

• The role of SIP, SDP and RTP in multimedia communications

• Locating users in a SIP environment

• SIP requests and responses

• SIP user agents, dialogues and transactions

• SIP architecture, operation and procedures

• SIP URIs and Tel URIs

• Analysis of SIP registration and session control

• Analysis of SIP and SDP messages and header fields

• Request and response routing techniques

• Route and record route headers

• The roles and functions of SIP Servers: Proxy, Redirect, B2BUA and Forking

• SDP offer/answer model

• SIP-I and interworking with the PSTN

• Registration and session establishment

• Case studies using Wireshark analysis