Building Telephony Systems With Opensips - Second Edition [Paperback]

Build high-speed and highly scalable telephony systems using OpenSIPS

About This Book

• Install and configure OpenSIPS to authenticate, route, bill, and monitor VoIP calls
• Gain a competitive edge using the most scalable VoIP technology
• Discover the latest features of OpenSIPS with practical examples and case studies

Who This Book Is For

If you want to understand how to build a SIP provider from scratch using OpenSIPS, then this book is ideal for you. It is beneficial for VoIP providers, large enterprises, and universities. This book will also help readers who were using OpenSER but are now confused with the new OpenSIPS.

Telephony and Linux experience will be helpful to get the most out of this book but is not essential. Prior knowledge of OpenSIPS is not assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Learn to prepare and configure a Linux system for OpenSIPS
• Familiarise yourself with the installation and configuration of OpenSIPS
• Understand how to set a domain and create users/extensions
• Configure SIP endpoints and make calls between them
• Make calls to and from the PSTN and create access control lists to authorize calls
• Install a graphical user interface to simplify the task of provisioning user and system information
• Implement an effective billing system with OpenSIPS
• Monitor and troubleshoot OpenSIPS to keep it running smoothly

In Detail

OpenSIPS is a multifunctional, multipurpose signalling SIP server. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is nowadays the most important VoIP protocol and OpenSIPS is the open source leader in VoIP platforms based on SIP. OpenSIPS is used to set up SIP Proxy servers. The purpose of these servers is to receive, examine, and classify SIP requests. The whole telecommunication industry is changing to an IP environment, and telephony as we know it today will completely change in less than ten yeal3!