Product Overview; Voip Principle - Yealink SIP-T2XP Administrator's Manual

Product Overview

This chapter contains the following information about SIP-T2xP IP phones:

VoIP Principle

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SIP Components
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SIP IP Phone Models
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VoIP Principle
VoIP
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a technology using the Internet Protocol instead
of traditional Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) technology for voice
communications.
It is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and
transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia
sessions over IP networks. The H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) are two popular
VoIP protocols that are found in widespread implement.
H.323
H.323 is a recommendation from the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) that defines the protocols to provide audio-visual communication sessions on
any packet network. The H.323 standard addresses call signaling and control,
multimedia transport and control, and bandwidth control for point-to-point and
multi-point conferences.
It is widely implemented by voice and video conference equipment manufacturers, is
used within various Internet real-time applications such as GnuGK and NetMeeting and
is widely deployed worldwide by service providers and enterprises for both voice and
video services over IP networks.
SIP
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) standard
for multimedia conferencing over IP. It is an ASCII-based, application-layer control
protocol (defined in RFC 3261) that can be used to establish, maintain, and terminate
calls between two or more endpoints. Like other VoIP protocols, SIP is designed to
address functions of signaling and session management within a packet telephony
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