SIP Trunking Design and Implementation Considerations

Chapter Description

This chapter highlights many of the network design and implementation considerations you should work through while planning or installing a SIP trunk for production purposes in your network.

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Further Reading

The following documents and references provide additional information on the topics covered in this chapter.

General

SIPConnect Forum: Focused on defining SP UNI compliance as a standard to ease interop requirements. http://www.sipforum.org/sipconnect.

Cisco IOS and Unified Border Element Documents

More information on TLS configuration for the CUBE can be found on Cisco.com. www.cisco.com/go/cube > Configure > Configuration Examples and TechNotes > Unified Border Element SIP TLS Configuration Example.

More SIP Normalization examples for the CUBE can be found on Cisco.com. www.cisco.com/go/cube > Configure > Configuration Examples and TechNotes > Unified Border Element (CUBE) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Normalization with SIP Profiles Configuration Example.

Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways. www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t4/feature/guide/gt_th.html.

IETF RFCs

Transport Layer Security (TLS) RFC-2246. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt?number=2246.

A Privacy Mechanism for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (RFC-3323). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3323.txt?number=3323.

Private Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Asserted Identity within Trusted Networks (RFC-3325). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3325.txt?number=3325.

HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication (RFC-2617). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt?number=2617.

The Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) (RFC-3711). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3711.txt?number=3711.

A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) (RFC-2782). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2782.txt?number=2782.

SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (RFC-3261). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt?number=3261.

A Message Summary and Message Waiting Indication Event Package for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (RFC-3842). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3842.txt?number=3842.