The IETF Internet telephony architecture and protocols

  • Authors:
  • H. Schulzrinne;J. Rosenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia Univ., NY;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Internet telephony was first used as a simple way to provide point-to-point voice transport between two IP hosts. However, the growing interest in providing integrated voice, data, and video services has caused its scope to be extended. Internet telephony now encompasses a range of services, including not only traditional conferencing, call control, multimedia, and mobility services, but also new ones that integrate Web, e-mail, presence, and instant messaging applications with telephony. Internet telephony and traditional circuit-switched telephony will coexist for quite some time, requiring interworking between the two. In this article we present a suite of protocols, developed in the IETF, which provide a partial solution to this complex problem