Internet Communications Using SIP

409 Pages·2006·11.15 MB·English

by  Henry Sinnreich

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Internet Communications
Using SIP
Delivering VoIP and Multimedia Services
with Session Initiation Protocol
Second Edition
Henry Sinnreich
Alan B. Johnston
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Internet Communications
Using SIP
Second Edition
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Internet Communications
Using SIP
Delivering VoIP and Multimedia Services
with Session Initiation Protocol
Second Edition
Henry Sinnreich
Alan B. Johnston
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Internet Communications Using SIP: Delivering VoIP and Multimedia Services with Session
Initiation Protocol, Second Edition
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Sinnreich, Henry.
Internet communications using SIP: delivering VoIPand multimedia services with Section Ini-
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We could not have written this book without the support of our forgiving
spouses, Fabienne and Lisa, who held the fort while we were working on
SIP. And to both our family members shouting, “Your SIP phone is ringing.”
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About the Authors
Dr. Henry Sinnreich(Richardson, TX) is Chief Technology Officer at Pulver.com,
a leading media company for VoIP and Internet communication services. Dr.
Sinnreich has held engineering and executive positions at MCI where he was
an MCI fellow and has been involved in Internet and multimedia services for
more than 12 years, including the development of the flagship MCI Advantage
service based on SIP. Henry Sinnreich is also a contributor to IETF standards
for Internet communications in such areas as SIPtelephony devices and using
RTPextensions for voice quality monitoring. He was awarded the title Pioneer
for VoIP in 2000 at the VON Europe conference. Henry Sinnreich has been a
cofounder and board member of the International SIPForum based in Stock-
holm. He is a frequent speaker and is known as the leading evangelist, world-
wide, for SIP based VoIP, presence, IM, multimedia, and integration of
applications with communications. Dr. Sinnreich is also a guest lecturer at the
Engineering School of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.
Alan B. Johnston(St. Louis, MO) is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at
Avaya, Inc. He has coauthored the core Internet SIPstandard RFC 3261 and four
other SIPrelated RFCs. He is the co-chair of the IETF Centralized Conferencing
Working Group and is on the board of directors of the International SIPForum.
His current areas of interest include peer-to-peer SIPand security. Dr. Johnston
is a frequent speaker and lecturer on SIPand contributor to various publications,
and is an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
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