SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol

by Alan B. Johnston

Now in its third edition, the ground-breaking Artech House bestseller " Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol" offers the most comprehensive and current understanding of this revolutionary protocol for call signaling and IP Telephony. Essential reading for anyone involved in the development and operation of voice or data networks, the third edition has been significantly expanded with brand new chapters on SIP security, services in SIP, presence and instant messaging, and Peer-to-Peer SIP. The book explains how SIP is a highly-scalable and cost-effective way to offer new and exciting telecommunication feature sets. From an examination of SIP as a key component in the Internet multimedia conferencing architecture...to a look at the future direction of SIP, practitioners get the knowledge they need to design 'next generation' networks and develop new applications and software stacks. This title is suitable for telecommunications/wireless engineers and professionals, professors and students whose work involves voice or data networks and the Internet multimedia architecture.

395 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Originally from Australia, Alan B. Johnston grew up in the United States surrounded by technology. Always going to become an engineer, he experimented with amateur radio, coding and creative writing from an early age, and traveled the world with his family. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering, and has worked in industry and taught at a number of universities. He has written five best-selling technical books and authored over thirty patents and international standards in real-time communications over Internet Protocol and in security, including co-authoring the ZRTP voice security protocol standard. He enjoys mentoring robotics teams and hacking around with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis. He lives near Seattle and continues to travel the world, ride motorcycles, and sail. Returning to Zero is his second novel, the continuation of the story of Mick O’Malley and the botnet started in his first novel Counting from Zero.

Reviews

[Jose Miguel · Rating 5 out of 5]

essential to understand the SIP protocol and its applications