Internet Telephony using the Session Initiation Protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a highly extensible signaling protocol that provides mechanisms for establishing, modifying, and tearing down Internet telephony calls. Together with other Internet protocols and API’s it can create a flexible, dynamic, and scalable telephony environment, where services can be developed and deployed rapidly and by a wide range of users. This report investigates some proposed extensions to SIP and some of the API's that aim to standardize how telephony services can be defined in a SIP enabled network. The report describes some changes and improvements to these proposals and demonstrates how different services can be implemented using them.