Would someone mind giving me plain, simple, and to the point description of what the significance of a SIP address is and/or what it does? Thanks!
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Would someone mind giving me plain, simple, and to the point description of what the significance of a SIP address is and/or what it does? Thanks!
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), commonly found on port 5060 udp/tcp.
Now you ask what the significance is of a SIP address, the answer is simple, you can essentially call from SIP to SIP, for the costs of bandwidth and cpu cycles. Many softphones will give you a SIP address you can be contacted at, i.e. sip:johndoe@hostname.com:5060, inwhich our system will let you forward to that SIP address much like a normal telephone number.
So just think of it as another method of connecting a call between users.
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Ford ka
In a way it's kind of like an email address.
You know how in my post on HG forums, I said in some cases we can route the call completely over the internet and avoid paying the traditional telcos for the call going on their network? That's basically how we do it...convert the number to a SIP address.
Say you have a friend with software that lets them call SIP address (it's the gold standard protocol for VoIP). If they have your SIP address, they could call you directly using it instead of your phone number.
So if they were in Japan and they wanted to call your US VOIPo number, they would likely pay their phone company international charges to call you since it's in the US. If they have your SIP address and use something to call it directly, the call is directly between you two bypassing the entire phone network and associated fees :)
Thank you both for the detailed explanations.
How would you call an SIP address directly though? Software on your computer, or settings on a VoIP modem?
Software. There are alot of free software packages out there.
X-Lite, SJPhone, Gizmo
Okay. Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by VOIPoTim
I don't get into a lot of the technical stuff, so maybe someone else here has some more suggestions for software, etc
With a Sip-py cup silly!Quote:
Originally Posted by esl
Just set up a speed dial number on your TA (assuming is has speed dial), then you call call a SIP address with the push of a couple buttons on your phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by esl