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Figure 14 SIP Redirect Server

5.2.3.4 SIP Register Server

ASIP register server maintains a database of SIP identity-to-IP address (or domain name) mapping. The register server checks your user name and password when you register.

5.2.4RTP

When you make a VoIP call using SIP, the RTP (Real time Transport Protocol) is used to handle voice data transfer. See RFC 1889 for details on RTP.

5.3 STUN

STUN (Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) through Network Address Translators) allows the Prestige to find the presence and types of NAT routers and/or firewalls between it and the public Internet. STUN also allows the Prestige to find the public IP address that NAT assigned, so the Prestige can embed it in the SIP data stream. See RFC 3489 for details on STUN.

5.3.1 NAT

NAT routers are commonly used to translate private (or internal) IP addresses in packet headers to public (or external) IP addresses and vice versa. NAT A NAT router maps a private IP address and port pair to a public IP address and port, and whenever the NAT router receives a packet with that public IP address and port, it knows how to reroute the packet back to the private IP address and port. The figures in this section use lower-case letters (like a.b.c.d for example) to represent public IP addresses. In the following figure, NAT maps the same IP address to both A and B, but uses separate ports.

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