Last week I talked at the Voip2Day conference in Madrid, organized by Avanzada7. The talk, named “Watch out!” covers new areas developed in SIP, but not implemented in many devices or servers out there. Solutions for NAT traversal, PSTN trunk registration and new work with the real time web is covered, along with a small update to the list of 10 bullets to remember when implementing a new SIP platform.

Some topics covered:

  • ICE, Interactive Connection Establishment, a complex but working solution to find a working media path between two Sip phones, either directly or using a media relay (A TURN server). Used both for NAT traversal and IPv4/IPv6 dual stack deployments.
  • SIP Outbound, the way to handle NAT traversal for SIP signaling. With SIP outbound, the client sets up multiple IP connections, called flows, to servers while indicating that it’s actually the same device that registers on all these connections. The proxy can then do failover if one connection fails. It’s up to the SIP phone, the user agent, to maintain the connections and re-open them when they fail.
  • GIN – the way SIPconnect sends a registration for a SIP trunk with multiple phone numbers. Before GIN, every vendor used it’s very own hack which raised the cost for service providers that wanted to support multiple vendors.
  • GRUU – Globally Routable User URI’s – a domain-based address for every device that registers for an account. Makes it possible to do more complex operations over domain boundaries. Without a GRUU, many URI’s are unusable since they’re referring to an IP address hidden behind a NAT device.
I feel that ICE and SIP outbound are good candidates on solving the NAT puzzle as well as the IPv6 transition. We need more Open Source implementations as a reference!
The presentation also covers RTCweb briefly. On the conference, there was a live demonstration by Iñaki Bas Castillo and a colleague of a SIP implementation in JavaScript connecting over WebSockets to a SIP proxy. They lacked RTCweb so there was no media in the calls, but it showed that it’s possible to implement SIP in the browser!

The talk is now published on Slideshare and can be viewed online. Enjoy!

/Olle

SIP : Watch out – don’t stay behind!

Posted: 10 Oct, 2011 | [2] Comments
Categories: IETF standards & drafts , ipv6 , sip  By: oej. Print This Post Print This Post