Thursday, November 11, 2010

OpenSIPS 1.4.4

OpenSIPS is an GPL implementation of a multi-functionality SIP Server that targets to deliver a high-level technical solution (performance, security and quality) to be used in professional SIP server platforms. OpenSIPS started as a fork of Fokus Fraunhofer SIP Express Router (SER) project.
OpenSIPS wants to be a more open project, not only from license point of view, but more open as project management, especially for external contributions.
OpenSIPSs goal is to overcome the development latency of current SER project and to ensure a shorter path into a release for new added features.

Main features:
- robust and performant SIP (RFC3261) Registrar server, Location server, Proxy server and Redirect server
- small footprint - the binary file is small size, functionality can be stripped/added via modules
- plug&play module interface - ability to add new extensions, without touching the core, therefore assuring a great stability of core components
- stateless and transactional statefull SIP Proxy processing
- support for UDP/TCP/TLS/SCTP transport layers
- IPv4 and IPv6
- support for SRV and NAPTR DNS
- SRV DNS failover
- IP Blacklists
- multi-homed (mhomed) and multi-domain support
- flexible and powerful scripting language for routing logic
- variables support in script - script variables, pseudo-variables (access to the SIP messages), AVPs (values persistent per SIP transactions)
- management interface via FIFO file and unix sockets
- authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) via database (MySQL, Postgress, text files), RADIUS and DIAMETER
- digest and IP authentication
- Presence Agent support (many additional integration features)
- XCAP support for Presence Agent
- CPL - Call Processing Language (RFC3880)
- SNMP - interface to Simple Network Management Protocol
- management interface (for external integration) via FIFO file, XMLRPC or Datagram (UDP or unixsockets)
- NAT traversal support for SIP and RTP traffic
- ENUM support
- PERL Programming Interface - embed your extensions written in Perl
- Java SIP Servlet Application Interface - write Java SIP Servlets to extent your VoIP services and integrate with web services
- load balancing with failover
- least cost routing
- support for replication - REGISTER offer new functions for replicating client information (real source and received socket).
- logging capabilities - can log custom messages including any header or pseudo-variable and parts of SIP message structure.
- modular architecture - plug-and-play module interface to extend the servers functionality
- gateway to sms (AT based)
- multiple database backends - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Berkeley, flat files and other database types which have unixodbc drivers
- straightforward interconnection with PSTN gateways
- dialog support (call monitoring, call termination from proxy side, call profiling)
- XMPP gateway-ing ( transparent server-to-server translation)
- impressive extension repository - over 70 modules are included in OpenSIPS repository
Scalability:
- OpenSIPS can run on embedded systems, with limited resources - the performances can be up to hundreds of call setups per second
- used a load balancer in stateless mode, OpenSIPS can handle over 5000 call setups per second
- on systems with 4GB memory, OpenSIPS can serve a population over 300 000 online subscribers
- system can easily scale by adding more OpenSIPS servers
- OpenSIPS can be used in geographic distributed VoIP platforms
- straightforward failover and redundancy

Enhancements
- After another month from 1.4.3 release, OpenSIPS improves itself with a new minor release, 1.4.4. Thanks to hard testing and fixing of a several people, new issues (critical and minor) were fixed on the OpenSIPS 1.4 branch.
- It is highly recommended to upgrade to this release, as it provides important stability improvements - OpenSIPS 1.4.4 is now available for download on project web site and SF download system.

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