Multimedia Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Protocols & Standards - Computer Networks, Telecommunications Technology, Telephony & Telephone Systems, Internet Telephony

SIP Demystified

Name: SIP Demystified
Author: Gonzalo Camarillo
ISBN: 9780071414623

by Gonzalo Camarillo

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Overview

State-of-the-art SIP primer

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is the open standard that will make IP telephony an irresistible force in communications, doing for converged services what http does for the Web. SIP Demystified – authored by Gonzalo Camarillo, one of the contributors to SIP development in the IETF—gives you the tools to keep your company and career competitive. This guide tells you why the standard is needed, what architectures it supports, and how it interacts with other protocols. As a bonus, you even get a context-setting background in data networking. Perfect if you’re moving from switched voice into a data networking environment, here’s everything you need to understand:

* Where, why, and how SIP is used
* What SIP can do and deliver
* SIP’s fit with other standards and systems
* How to plan implementations of SIP-enabled services
* How to size up and choose from available SIP products

About the Author, Gonzalo Camarillo

Gonzalo Camarillo is originally from Spain. Besides Madrid, where he was born, he has lived in Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland) and New York (USA). He went to high school (Colegio Valdeluz) in Madrid and obtained a M.Sc. in electrical engineering from UPM (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid). Has obtained his second M.Sc, also in electrical engineering, from KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), in Stockholm. He is currently a part-time Ph.D student at HUT (Helsinki University of Technology).

Mr. Camarillo first joined Ericsson Sweden to work for a research department called SwitchLab. He currently works for Ericsson in Finland with the Advanced Signalling Research Laboratory.

Mr. Camarillo is spending this year in New York as a visitor researcher at Columbia University as part of the collaboration existing between this university and Ericsson.