Linksys SPA962, SPA942, SPA932, SPA922 Session Initiation Protocol and SPA9x2 Phones, SIP Over TCP

Models: SPA942

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Session Initiation Protocol and SPA9x2 Phones

Introducing Linksys SPA9x2 Phones

Session Initiation Protocol and SPA9x2 Phones

Session Initiation Protocol and SPA9x2 Phones

Linksys SPA9x2 phones use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), allowing interoperation with all ITSPs supporting SIP.

SIP handles signaling and session management within a packet telephony network. Signaling allows call information to be carried across network boundaries. Session management controls the attributes of an end-to-end call.

The following diagram shows a SIP request for connection to another subscriber in the network.

In typical commercial IP telephony deployments, all calls go through a SIP proxy server. The requesting phone is called the SIP user agent server (UAS), while the receiving phone is called the user agent client (UAC).

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SIP message routing is dynamic. If a SIP proxy receives a request from a UAS for a connection but cannot locate the UAC, the proxy forwards the message to another SIP proxy in the network. When the UAC is located, the response is routed back to the UAS, and a direct peer-to- peer session is established between the two UAs. Voice traffic is transmitted between UAs over dynamically-assigned ports using Real-time Protocol (RTP).

The Internet protocol RTP transmits real-time data such as audio and video; it does not guarantee real-time delivery of data. RTP provides mechanisms for the sending and receiving applications to support streaming data. Typically, RTP runs on top of the UDP protocol. See ”Simple Traversal of UDP Through NATs (STUN)” section on page 13.

SIP Over TCP

To guarantee state-oriented communications, SPA9x2 phones can use TCP as the transport protocol for SIP. This protocol is “guaranteed delivery”, which assures that lost packets are retransmitted. TCP also guarantees that the SIP packages are received in the same order that they were sent.

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