VoIP Devices & Internet Communications Using SIP

SIP:VoIP Devices & Internet Communications Using SIP

Book Title:	Internet Communications Using SIP
Author:	Henry Sinnreich, Alan B. Johnston
Publication:	John Wiley & Sons October, 2001
ISBN:	0471413992

Book Review: SIP:VoIP Devices & Internet Communications Using SIP

SIP or Session Initiation Protocol is a leading standard protocol used in telecommunication field. The SIP protocol was standardized in 1999 when it became the official IETF Internet communication standard and since then, it has gained enormous popularity and every person working in or interested in telecommunication field knows about SIP.

Session Initiation Protocol is very widely used around the web due to its high usability. The SIP can be used to start or inter-communicate multiple devices at one time. It can be used to run audio, video and digital data transfer at one time. This highly flexibility is utilized in many applications and which is the cause of such popularity of SIP.

Complete overview of SIP

Authors are having a good understanding about the implementation and trouble shooting of SIP. Moreover, they have used their technical expertise to provide an overview about the technology requirements. SIP characteristics and features are thoroughly explained which provides a good grasp on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and its usage.

Focus on Internet Communication rather than just Voice over IP and Video over IP

Authors have tried to move away from the conventional VoIP and Video over IP protocols and have focused their main attention to Internet Communication with Sip which contains the methods of Internet communication using SIP. The Internet communication may be of digital data, Voice data or even Video data, since the protocol is used universally on the internet, it makes very little difference as to what kind of communication is made with SIP.

SIP can be used to simultaneously work with audio, video and digital data which makes it very suitable for communication purpose and the book cover almost all facts regarding this approach of SIP to make communication easy and fast using SIP