Chapter 26 Bandwidth Management

Table 82 Media Bandwidth Management Setup: Services (continued)

SERVICE

DESCRIPTION

VoIP (SIP)

Sending voice signals over the Internet is called Voice over IP or VoIP. Session

 

Initiated Protocol (SIP) is an internationally recognized standard for

 

implementing VoIP. SIP is an application-layer control (signaling) protocol that

 

handles the setting up, altering and tearing down of voice and multimedia

 

sessions over the Internet.

 

SIP is transported primarily over UDP but can also be transported over TCP.

 

 

BitTorrentBitTorrent is a free P2P (peer-to-peer) sharing tool allowing you to distribute

 

large software and media files. BitTorrent requires you to search for a file with a

 

searching engine yourself. It distributes files by corporation and trading, that is,

 

the client downloads the file in small pieces and share the pieces with other

 

peers to get other half of the file.

 

 

GamingOnline gaming services lets you play multiplayer games on the Internet via

 

broadband technology. As of this writing, your NBG4615 supports Xbox,

 

Playstation, Battlenet and MSN Game Zone.

 

 

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