SIP and end-to-end

Oct 16, 2005 1 Replies
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Common wisdom says that for a SIP-based telephony session the media stream is directly end to end. However, for both FWD and sipgate.de I figured that the media stream goes via the respective provider. I would assume the sip proxy to manipulate the Invite messages accordingly. Is this being done to better cope with NAT devices and firewalls?


Hello,

Exactly. For instance see PortaSIP User Guide, "NAT traversal" chapter for more details.

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With best regards, Andriy Zhylenko

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