Introduction to SIP

Larry Amiot Northwestern University amiot@northwestern.edu

Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training April 22, 2004 Arlington, Virginia

How Do We Communicate?
Telephone (home, work, & cell phone) Email Text messaging Data sharing (PowerPoint, applications, white board, desktop, etc.) Audio/video File transfer Ink- tablet PC
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Questions?
but how do we know where to find the person we want to communicate with ...and given the availability of my resources, which of the persons devices do I want to communicate with ..and what is the address of that device ..and how does the person control his active/inactive devices ..and how do we authenticate people ..and how do we bridge this between organizations
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Enter the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

An emerging signaling protocol for:
Initiating, Managing, and Terminating messaging, voice, and video sessions

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Developed by the SIP Working Group Published as IETF RFC 3261

Connectivity using IP May be extended for services such as:

call control services, mobility, interoperability with telephony systems, and more
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SIP and its Extensions

Presence
The willingness and ability of a user and their devices to communicate with other users on the network SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE)

Authentication Office integration

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SIP Entities
User Agent
User Agent Client (UAC) User Agent Server (UAS)

Redirect Server

Proxy Server
Registrar

Application

SIP Session Establishment and Call Termination

7 Figure courtesy of Radvision Ltd

Session Description Protocol (SDP)

SDP is the protocol used to describe multimedia session announcement, multimedia session invitation and other forms of multimedia session initiation.

A multimedia session is defined, for these purposes, as a set of media streams that exist for a duration of time.
RFP 2327
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Call Redirection Using a Redirect Server

9 Figure courtesy of Radvision Ltd

Call Proxy Scenario

10 Figure courtesy of Radvision Ltd

Authentication- RFC 3261

Any time that a proxy server or UA receives a request, it MAY challenge the initiator of the request to provide assurance of its identity. No authorization systems are recommended or discussed in this document. The "Digest" authentication mechanism described in this section provides message authentication and replay protection only, without message integrity or confidentiality. Basic should not be used Microsoft LCS supports Kerberos and NTLM
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A Few SIP Implementation Examples

Microsoft Live Communications Server Wave Three Software: Session

Radvision ViaIP

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Windows Messenger- The Microsoft Approach

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Windows Messenger
SIP-based Runs on Windows XP systems (sorry no Macs) Core Features:
Presence and contact list management Instant Messaging Voice and Video Data collaboration and File transfer PC to Phone Administrative Policies to enable/disable features Acoustic Echo Cancellation in software

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Windows Messenger

Microsoft .Net SIP server or enterprise SIP server

Can not go point-to-point using IP addressing- needs proxy server Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) is their proxy server

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SIP Point-to-Point Interoperability Using the Microsoft LCS

Microsoft Live Communication Server

Microsoft Active Directory

Internet

Windows Messenger Clients

SIP/H.323 Interoperability Using the Radvision MCU

Radvision MCU H.323

S I P

Microsoft Live Communication Server

Internet

Microsoft Active Directory

H.323 Clients

Windows Messenger Clients

SIP/H.323 Interoperability Using the Radvision MCU

Radvision MCU H.323

S I IMfirst P

Microsoft Live Communication Server

Internet

Microsoft Active Directory

H.323 Clients

Windows Messenger Clients

SIP/H.323 Interoperability Using the Radvision MCU

UAS UAC

Radvision MCU H.323

S I P

eCONF SIP Clients

Internet

H.323 Clients

Wave3s Sessions SIP Client

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Sessions
Sip-based Works on/between PCs and MACs

IM, Audio/video, & data sharing

Can go point-to-point using IP addressing Can work with a SIP server Wave3 has a server for multipoint video Released version (WAVELETS codec) not compatible with
H.323 Windows Messenger Working on new H.261/H.263 video encoder for compatibility

Not compatible with Windows Messenger data sharing No echo cancellation No presence yet

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SIP/H.323 Interoperability Using the Radvision MCU

Radvision MCU H.323

S I P

Your Favorite SIP Server

Internet

H.323 Clients

Session Clients

A Few SIP Clients

Microsoft Windows Messenger

eCONF (Radvision resale?)

Wave3 Sessions (www.wave3software.com) Network Convergence Laboratory at Claremont Graduate University (ncl.cug.edu)

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A Few SIP Proxy Servers

Microsoft Live Communications Server HCL Technologies (www.hcltech.com) Indigo Ubiquity SNOM VOCAL Iptel DynamicSoft Siemens

Nortel
eCONF

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Summary
SIP is an emerging Technology Staying with single a vender solution is currently workable Interoperability between vender products is still in early stages Multipoint conferencing is possible Data Sharing is still an interoperability problem Selection of a SIP Proxy Server is critical as is its method of authentication
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