Wired for sound: how SIP won the VoIP protocol wars (Ars Technica)
As an industry grows, it is quite common to find multiple solutions that all attempt to address similar requirements. This evolution dictates that these proposed standards go through a stage of selection—over time, we see some become more dominant than others. Today, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is clearly one of the dominant VoIP protocols , but that obviously didn’t happen overnight …
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