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Internet Communications Using SIP
Computer Communications 26 (2003) 1428 www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom
Book Review Internet Communications Using SIP Internet Communications Using SIP, H. Sinnreich, A.B. Johnston (Eds); Wiley, New York, ISBN 0-471-41399-2 The session initiation protocol—SIP—is a key component for the introduction of telephony and new services in future multimedia communication networks. Henry Sinnreich and Alan B. Johnston are both active members in the standardisation bodies of the Internet society and have contributed significantly to this new developed protocol. It is their mission to distribute their finding and confession, that SIP will revolutionise telecommunications. Eighteen chapters are needed to present this finding. While the structuring of the last chapters is quite clear, we have chapters which are dealing topics like SIP Service Creation, User Preferences, Security, Network Adress Translation and Firewall and others, the structuring of the book at its beginning leaves some questions. We have an overview of SIP services in chapter 2 and a chapter 5 entitled SIP Overview. In both we have amongst others the information what SIP is not. After having sailed these cliffs the book gives profound and detailed information on the issue the book has been bought for—to get an overview on SIP and how SIP can be used and what it is good for.
What I have found excellent is the structuring of the chapters itself. After each chapter the reader gets a summary and a list of references to go into more detail and to have access to additional information. Also the rich number of examples helps the reader to understand the topic that is going to be explained. Especially the omni present scenarios on calls are of big usage for the reader. An extensive glossary helps the reader to look for abbreviations that are not present in the mind. An additional index chapter helps the user also to find explanations of items in the book when reading topics out of order. As a conclusion I would recommend to read the book for getting a first overview on SIP. To my opinion it is ideally suited on the one hand for practising telecommunications professionals, electrical engineers and technologists and computer and information scientists, on the other hand for graduate and upper-level undergraduate college students in telecommunications and computer and information science.
0140-3664/03/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 1 4 0 - 3 6 6 4 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 2 4 4 - X
Hartmut Weik Hummelbergstr. 15, D-70195 Stuttgart, Germany
Book Review Internet Communications Using SIP Internet Communications Using SIP, H. Sinnreich, A.B. Johnston (Eds); Wiley, New York, ISBN 0-471-41399-2 The session initiation protocol—SIP—is a key component for the introduction of telephony and new services in future multimedia communication networks. Henry Sinnreich and Alan B. Johnston are both active members in the standardisation bodies of the Internet society and have contributed significantly to this new developed protocol. It is their mission to distribute their finding and confession, that SIP will revolutionise telecommunications. Eighteen chapters are needed to present this finding. While the structuring of the last chapters is quite clear, we have chapters which are dealing topics like SIP Service Creation, User Preferences, Security, Network Adress Translation and Firewall and others, the structuring of the book at its beginning leaves some questions. We have an overview of SIP services in chapter 2 and a chapter 5 entitled SIP Overview. In both we have amongst others the information what SIP is not. After having sailed these cliffs the book gives profound and detailed information on the issue the book has been bought for—to get an overview on SIP and how SIP can be used and what it is good for.
What I have found excellent is the structuring of the chapters itself. After each chapter the reader gets a summary and a list of references to go into more detail and to have access to additional information. Also the rich number of examples helps the reader to understand the topic that is going to be explained. Especially the omni present scenarios on calls are of big usage for the reader. An extensive glossary helps the reader to look for abbreviations that are not present in the mind. An additional index chapter helps the user also to find explanations of items in the book when reading topics out of order. As a conclusion I would recommend to read the book for getting a first overview on SIP. To my opinion it is ideally suited on the one hand for practising telecommunications professionals, electrical engineers and technologists and computer and information scientists, on the other hand for graduate and upper-level undergraduate college students in telecommunications and computer and information science.
0140-3664/03/$ - see front matter q 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 1 4 0 - 3 6 6 4 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 2 4 4 - X
Hartmut Weik Hummelbergstr. 15, D-70195 Stuttgart, Germany