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 $Id$

-             iptel.org SIP Express Router (ser)

-                http://www.iptel.org/ser/

-               

+                 SIP Router (sip-router)

+                http://www.sip-router.org/

+                ==========================

-

-I.   About SIP Express Router (SER)

+I.   About SIP Router (sip-router)

 II.  Feature List

-III. About iptel.org

-IV.  Obtaining Help

-V.   More Information

-

-

-SIP Express Router (SER) is an industrial-strength, free VoIP 

-server based on the session initiation protocol (SIP RFC2543-bis). 

-It is engineered to power IP telephony infrastructures up to large 

-scale. The server keeps track of users, sets up VoIP sessions, 

-relays instant messages and creates space for new plug-in 

-applications. Its proven interoperability guarantees seamless 

-integration with components from other vendors, eliminating the 

-risk of a single-vendor trap. It has successfully participated in 

-various interoperability tests in which it worked with the products 

+III. Getting started

+IV.  About the project

+V.   Obtaining Help

+VI.  More Information

+

+

+SIP Router (sip-router) is an industrial-strength, free VoIP server based 

+on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP RFC3261). 

+It is engineered to power IP telephony and presence infrastructures up to large 

+scale. The server keeps track of users, sets up VoIP sessions, relays instant 

+messages and creates space for new plug-in applications. Its proven interoperability 

+guarantees seamless integration with components from other vendors, eliminating the 

+risk of a single-vendor trap. It has successfully participated in various 

+interoperability tests in which it worked with the products 

 of other leading SIP vendors.

-The SIP Express Router enables a flexible plug-in model for new 

-applications: Third parties can easily link their plug-ins with 

-the server code and provide thereby advanced and customized 

-services.  

+The SIP Router enables a flexible plug-in model for new applications: Third parties 

+can easily link their plug-ins with the server code and provide thereby advanced and

+customized services.  

-Its performance and robustness allows it to serve millions of users 

-and accommodate needs of very large operators. With a $3000 dual-CPU, 

-the SIP Express Router is able to power IP telephony services in an 

-area as large as the Bay Area during peak hours. Even on an IPAQ PDA, 

-the server withstands 150 calls per second (CPS)! The server has been 

-powering our iptel.org free SIP site withstanding heavy daily load 

-that is further increasing with the popularity of Microsoft's 

-Messenger.  

+Its performance and robustness allows it to serve millions of users and accommodate needs

+of very large operators. With a $3000 dual-CPU, the SIP Express Router is able to power 

+IP telephony services in an area as large as the Bay Area during peak hours.

-The SIP Express Router is extremely configurable to allow the creation

-of various routing and admission policies as well as setting up new 

-and customized services. Its configurability allows it to serve many 

-roles: network security barrier, application server, or PSTN gateway 

-guard for example.

+The SIP Router is extremely configurable to allow the creation of various routing and 

+admission policies as well as setting up new and customized services. Its configurability 

+allows it to serve many roles: network security barrier, presence server, application server, 

+or PSTN gateway guard (Session Border Controller) for example.

 II. Feature List

+================

+

+See http://www.sip-router.org/ for an updated feature list.

+Note that as features easily are added as modules, changes can occur quickly.

+

+Most of SIP-router's features are implemented as plug-in modules. See 

+our web site for a current list.

+

+III. Getting started

+====================

-See http://www.iptel.org/ser/features for an updated feature list.

-Note that as features easily are added as modules, changes can

-occur quickly.

+The INSTALL document will guide you through the installation of sip-router. 

+SIP-router is composed of a core and additional modules. For each module

+there is a README with documentation on how to configure and use the 

+module. These are available in each modules source code directory as well

+as on the sip-router.org web site.

-Most of SER features are implemented as plug-in modules. See

-http://www.iptel.org/views/tableofmodules for a list of modules 

-available in SER distribution.

+We recommend that you continue with reading README-MODULES and then the

+document named INSTALL.

+IV. About sip-router.org

+========================

-III. About iptel.org

+The SIP Router project was started during the fall of 2008 by developers from

+the OpenSER project, recently renamed to Kamailio.org and SIP Express Router (SER)

+from iptel.org. SIP Router is the result of a merge of the code base and years

+of experience from both developer teams.

-See http://www.iptel.org/ser_history for the story of SER and iptel.org.

+See http://www.sip-router.org/ for the story of SER, OpenSER/Kamailio and sip-router.org.

-IV. Obtaining Help

+V. Obtaining Help

+=================

-We offer best-effort free support for ser. "best-effort" means 

+We offer best-effort free support for sip-router. "best-effort" means 

 that we try to solve your problems via email as soon as we can, 

 subject to available manpower. 

 To receive feedback to your inquiries, we recommend you to subscribe 

-to the serusers mailing list and post your queries there. This mailing 

+to the sr-users mailing list and post your queries there. This mailing 

 list is set up for mutual help by the community of ser users and developers. 

 To participate in the mailing list, subscribe at the following web address: 

-         http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers.

-Send your questions to 

-         serusers@iptel.org. 

+         http://lists.sip-router.org/mailman/listinfo/sr-users

-V. More Information

+VI. More Information

+====================

 Most up-to-date information is always available at our website,

-                 http://www.iptel.org/ser/

+                 http://www.sip-router.org/

 Particularly, it includes:

 - administrator's guide

+- configuration cookbook

+- module documentation

 - installation guidelines (INSTALL)

 - download links

-- list of known issues (ISSUES)

 - etc.

@@ -1,370 +1,204 @@

-# $Id$

-=========================================

-NOTE!!! THIS FILE IS NO LONGER IN USE.

-PLEASE REFER TO:

-http://www.iptel.org/views/moduledocs

-FOR AN UPDATED LIST OF OFFICIAL MODULES.

-=========================================

-'Owner' field contains a developers CVS username, see file

-AUTHORS for more details.

-

-'Use' tells how deployable a module is. Regular indicates

-we deploy and use this feature in our infrastructure.

-Experimental tells we are still gaining operation experience.

-Temporary labels modules which momentarily fix some

-bugs/lacks and will disappear later. Example modules

-are primarily useful as educational source code for

-ser programmers.

-

-'Maturity' is label as stable if a module has been deployed

-for longer time, alpha if it is still being developed and

-beta if it is under test.

-

-'Depends on' field tells which modules the module needs. 

-

-Modules underway include firewall control, and more. 

-If you are interested in any of these or other modules, 

-write us to info@iptel.org.

-

-List of currently available ser modules:

-

-Name:       acc

-Owner:      jiri

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: tm

-Purpose:    Transaction accounting/example (the module server also as an

-            example of how to bind to transaction management)

-

-Name:       auth

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: sl

-Purpose:    Common functions for digest authentication

-

-Name:       auth_db

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: mysql auth

-Purpose:    Database support for digest authentication

-

-Name:       auth_radius

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: auth

-Purpose:    Radius support for digest authentication

-

-Name:       avp

-Owner:      jiri

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Loads and checks avps per caller or callee

-

-Name:       avp_db

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: mysql avp

-Purpose:    Database support for avps

-

-Name:       avp_db

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: avp

-Purpose:    Radius support for avps

-

-Name:       avpops

-Owner:      ramona

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: 

-Purpose:    avp operations, pseudo-variable support

-

-Name:       cpl-c

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Call Processing Language

-

-Name:       dbtext

-Owner:      dcm

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Database emulation in plaintext files

-

-Name:       dispatcher

-Owner:      dcm

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Implements a dispatcher for incoming requests using hashes

-

-Name:       diversion

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Support for the Diversion extensions (draft-levy-sip-diversion-08)

-

-Name:       exec

-Owner:      jiri

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Execution of external URI processing logic

-

-Name:       ext

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Execution of external URI processing logic

-

-Name:       extcmd

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Execution of external commands

-

-Name:       flatstore

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Very fast accounting in flat text files

-

-Name:       gflags

-Owner:      jiri

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    global flags that can be changed by fifo commands

-

-Name:       group

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: database

-Purpose:    Group membership checking using database

-

-Name:       group_radius

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Group membership checking using Radius

-

-Name:       jabber

-Owner:      dcm

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: database tm

-Purpose:    SIMPLE 2 Jabber gateway

-

-Name:       maxfwd

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Max-Forwards check

-

-Name:       msilo

-Owner:      dcm

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: database tm

-Purpose:    Message store

-

-Name:       mysql

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    MySQL database support

-

-Name:       options

-Owner:      calrissian

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Answers server options requests

-

-Name:       pa

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: tm (usrloc jabber)

-Purpose:    Presence agent

-

-Name:       pike

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   alpha

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Excessive load detection

-

-Name:       print

-Owner:      andrei

-Use:        example

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Printing messages to stdout

-

-Name:       registrar

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: usrloc sl

-Purpose:    Registrar

-

-Name:       rr

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Routing and Record-Routing

-

-Name:       sl

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Stateless replies

-

-Name:       sms

-Owner:      bogdan

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: tm

-Purpose:    SMS gateway

-

-Name:       snmp

-Owner:      ric

-Use:        removed

-Maturity:   removed

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    SNMP Management

-

-Name:       speeddial

-Owner:      ramona

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    On-server speed dial facilities

-

-Name:       textops

-Owner:      andrei

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Message Textual Operations

-

-Name:       tm

-Owner:      jiri

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Transaction Management

-

-Name:       uri

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: database

-Purpose:    Various URI checks

-

-Name:       uri_db

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: mysql uri

-Purpose:    URI checking using DB

-

-Name:       uri_radius

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    URI checking using Radius

-

-Name:       usrloc

-Owner:      janakj

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: database

-Purpose:    User location support

-

-Name:       vm

-Owner:      rco

-Use:        removed (functionality moved in tm)

-Maturity:   removed

-Depends on: tm

-Purpose:    Voicemail interface

-

-Name:       xlog

-Owner:      ramona

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: 

-Purpose:    formatted logging (printf style)

-

-Contributions

-Name:       domain

-Owner:      jih

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: mysql

-Purpose:    Local domain lists and related functions

-

-Name:       enum

-Owner:      jih

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Enum support

-

-Name:       domain

-Owner:      jih

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    support for maintenance of multiple domains

-

-Name:       mediaproxy

-Owner:      danp, agprojects

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: mediaproxy media relay

-Purpose:    nat traversal

-

-Name:       nathelper

-Owner:      sobomax

-Use:        regular

-Maturity:   stable

-Depends on: rtpproxy

-Purpose:    nat traversal

-

-Name:		permissions

-Owner:		tirpi

-Use:		experimental

-Maturity:	beta

-Depends on:	-

-Purpose:	hosts.allow-like ACLs

-

-Name:       postgress

-Owner:      lgfausak

-Use:        experimental

-Maturity:   beta

-Depends on: -

-Purpose:    Postgress DB support

+SIP-ROUTER modules

+==================

+

+This is the first release of the combined project. In order to be able to support

+an upgrade path for both Kamailio/OpenSER and SER current users, we have been forced to

+provide some modules in two versions, which means that we have three set of modules:

+

+ - modules: 	the SIP router modules

+ - modules_k: 	Kamailio modules

+ - modules_s: 	SER modules

+

+All modules are compatible with the core, so regardless if you are a new user or 

+an existing, you are free to make a choice between the three sets.

+Note that if you are currently using one product, you want to select the module

+that exists in the K/S directories first to get a smooth upgrade path.

+

+As sip-router development progress, we will move as many modules as possible

+into the core and only keep k/s modules for backwards compatibility when required.

+

+What is a module?

+=================

+A module consists of a lot of functions that enhance the core. Some of the modules

+depends on other modules. It's all properly documented in the README that belongs

+to each module (available as web pages on the sip-router.org web site).

+

+A module providers up to three different APIs:

+

+- Enhancements to the core SIP-router routing script (functions)

+- Commands for the management interface (MI)

+- Development interface for other modules

+

+A single module may provide a selection of this, maybe only one of them.

+

+Core modules

+------------

+auth_radius		Radius authentication

+avpops			Attribute-value pair operations ("variables")

+carrierroute		A telephony routing module

+db_berkeley		Database :: Berkeley DB (Oracle)

+db_flatstore		Database :: Flatstore

+db_mysql		Database :: Mysql

+db_postgres		Database :: PostgreSQL

+dialplan		Dialplan management

+enum			Enum support

+lcr			Least cost routing

+mediaproxy		Nat traversal :: Mediaproxy (AG projects)

+mi_rpc			Management Interface :: XML RPC support

+misc_radius		Various Radius functions

+pdb			???

+peering			SIP peering between service providers

+tls			SSL/TLS support

+tm			SIP transaction support (stateful proxy)

+utils			Various utilities (http query, xcap status)

+

+Kamailio modules

+----------------

+acc			Accounting

+alias_db		Alias management in database modules

+auth			MD5 digest authentication support

+auth_db			Authentication using a database module

+auth_diameter		Authentication based on Diameter

+benchmark		Development benchmark module

+call_control		Call timeouts and management (depends on Dialog module)

+cfgutils		Various configuration utilities

+cpl-c

+db_oracle		Database :: Oracle support

+db_text			Database :: Text support

+db_unixodbc		Database :: Unix ODBC support

+dialog			Dialog ("call") state module

+dispatcher		Load balancing and failover

+diversion		Call redirect support (SIP Diversion: header)

+domain			Proxy :: Multiple domain support using databases

+domainpolicy

+drouting		Proxy :: Dynamic routing

+exec

+group			Utils :: Group membership checking

+h350			LDAP/ITU H.350 multimedia schema support

+htable			Utils :: Hash table support

+imc			IM :: Instant messaging conference

+jabber			IM :: Jabber gateway

+kex			Proxy :: Kamailio core functions (backwards compatibility)

+ldap			LDAP Directory access

+maxfwd			SIP loop detection prevention (max-forwards header - "ttl")

+memcached		Utils :: In-memory caching support (memcached)

+mi_datagram		Management interface :: UDP

+mi_fifo			Management Interface :: Unix FIFO

+mi_xmlrpc		Management Interface :: XML-rpc

+msilo			Text message storage

+nat_traversal		NAT :: NAT traversal module

+nathelper		NAT :: NAT traversal module :: RTPproxy (SIPPY software)

+osp			Open Settlement Protocol support

+path			Path: header support

+pdt			Proxy :: Routing based on numeric prefix

+perl			Perl-based module interface

+perlvdb			Database :: Use perl database functions

+permissions		Security :: TCP-wrapper-like ACL functions

+pike			Security :: DOS-attack prevention

+presence		Presence :: Core presence module

+presence_dialoginfo	Presence :: Dialog info

+presence_mwi		Presence :: Message waiting indication

+presence_xml		Presence :: XML handler

+pua

+pua_bla

+pua_dialoginfo

+pua_mi			Presence :: Management interface

+pua_usrloc

+pua_xmpp		Presence :: XMPP/Jabber gateway

+purple			Presence :: Libpurple support

+pv

+qos			Dialogs :: SDP management 

+ratelimit		Security :: Rate limit

+regex			Regular expression support

+registrar		Registrar/location server support

+rls			Presence :: Resource list server

+rr			Proxy :: Record routing

+rtimer			Utils :: Timer based routing script processing

+sanity			Syntax checking for incoming SIP requests

+seas			Application server interface

+siptrace		Store SIP messages in database

+siputils		Various utilities for SIP call handling

+sl			Proxy :: Stateless handling of SIP messages

+sms			SMS gateway support

+snmpstats		SNMP support (net-snmp agentx)

+speeddial

+sqlops

+sst

+statistics

+textops			Text operations

+tmx			Proxy :: Kamailio transaction extensions (TM module)

+uac

+uac_redirect

+uri_db

+userblacklist

+usrloc			Proxy :: Location server

+xcap_client		Presence :: XCAP support

+xlog			Utils :: Extended logging support

+xmpp			Presence/IM :: XMPP/jabber gateway

+

+SER modules

+-----------

+acc_db

+acc_radius

+acc_syslog

+auth

+auth_db

+auth_identity

+avp

+avp_db

+bdb

+blst

+cfg_db

+cfg_rpc

+cpl-c

+ctl

+db_ops

+dbg

+dbtext

+dialog

+dispatcher

+diversion		Proxy :: Call redirection support (Diversion: header)

+domain			Proxy :: Multiple domain support

+eval

+exec			Proxy :: External script support (modify route set)

+fifo		

+gflags			Proxy :: Global flags

+iptrtpproxy		NAT traversal :: Kernel based RTP proxy

+jabber			IM :: Jabber gateway

+ldap			LDAP directory server support

+mangler

+maxfwd			Proxy :: Loop prevention (max-forwards header)

+msilo

+nathelper		NAT traversal :: RTP proxy (SIPPY software)

+options			Proxy :: Support for SIP OPTION request

+oracle			Database :: Oracle

+osp			Open Settlement Protocol

+pa

+pdt

+permissions		Security :: ACL support like TCP wrappers

+pike

+prefix_route

+presence_b2b

+print

+print_lib

+ratelimit

+registrar

+rls

+rr

+sanity

+sl

+sms

+speeddial

+textops

+timer

+tls

+uac

+unixsock

+uri

+uri_db

+usrloc

+xcap

+xlog			Extended logging support

+xmlrpc