SIP Gateways[sip的网关服务器介绍]

SIP Gateways[sip的网关服务器介绍]

SIP Gateways[sip的网关服务器介绍] SIP Gateways

A SIP gateway is an application that interfaces a SIP network to a network utilizing another signaling protocol. In terms of the SIP protocol, a gateway is just a special type of user agent, where the user agent acts on behalf of another protocol rather than a human. A gateway terminates the signaling path and can also terminate the media path, although this is not always the case. For example, a SIP to H.323 gateway terminates the SIP signaling path and converts the signaling to H.323, but the SIP user agent and H.323 terminal can exchange RTP media information directly with each other without going through the gateway. An example of this is described in [H.323 to SIP Call]

shows a SIP network connected via gateways with the PSTN and a H.323 network. There is work underway to standardize the SIP/H.323 interworking function .

SIP network with gateways.

REGISTER every user it supports in the same way that a user agent might. Instead, a non-SIP protocol can be used to inform proxies about gateways and assist in routing. One protocol that has been proposed for this is the Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) protocol [6], which allows an interdomain routing table of gateways to be developed. Another protocol called Telephony Gateway Registration Protocol (TGREP) [7] has also been developed to allow a gateway to register with a proxy server within a domain.