
Prestige 2002 Series User’s Guide
Figure 14 SIP Redirect Server
5.2.3.4 SIP Register Server
ASIP register server maintains a database of SIP
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
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