Layer

Session L5

Dialogs, call state, session control.

Q.931

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ISDN user-network call control: SETUP, CALL PROCEEDING, ALERTING, CONNECT, DISCONNECT, RELEASE. Information elements carry bearer capabil…

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H.323

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ITU umbrella for packet multimedia: H.225.0 call signaling/RAS, H.245 media control, and RTP/RTCP media. Gatekeepers provide admission an…

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SIP

Lab ready

Text-based signaling for creating and managing sessions. Methods (INVITE, ACK, BYE, REGISTER…) and response codes resemble HTTP; SDP bodi…

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SDP

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Textual session description: media lines, codecs (rtpmap/fmtp), ICE candidates, and direction attributes. Carried in SIP, WebRTC, and MGC…

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OPC UA

Lab ready

Platform-independent industrial information model with secure channels, sessions, subscriptions, and monitored items. Binary UA-TCP and H…

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TCAP

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Transaction and dialogue layer over SCCP for intelligent-network and mobile services. Begin/Continue/End/Abort components carry MAP, CAP,…

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MGCP

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Media Gateway Control Protocol in which Call Agents issue CRCX/MDCX/DLCX and signal requests to subordinate media gateways. SDP in the te…

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H.248 / Megaco

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H.248/Megaco media-gateway control using terminations, contexts, and descriptors for large carrier gateways. It succeeds MGCP conceptuall…

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Skinny (SCCP)

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Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) for phone registration and call control toward CUCM. Station messages drive lamp, ringer, and…

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ICE

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Interactive Connectivity Establishment gathers local, reflexive, and relay candidates, then runs STUN checks to pick working media paths.…

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WebRTC Signaling

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Application-defined signaling — often SIP, or JSON over WebSocket — that exchanges SDP offers/answers and ICE candidates for WebRTC peers…

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H.225.0

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H.323 call signaling and RAS: Q.931-derived Setup/Alerting/Connect on the Call Signaling Channel plus gatekeeper discovery/registration. …

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H.245

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H.323 multimedia control protocol for capability exchange, master/slave determination, and logical channel open/close. Fast Start and H.2…

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HTTP/2

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Multiplexed binary framing over a single TLS/TCP connection with streams, HPACK headers, and flow-control windows. It underpins gRPC and …

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TLS

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Transport Layer Security provides a record layer and handshake for confidentiality and integrity on TCP apps. Certificates, AEAD ciphers,…

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DTLS

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Datagram Transport Layer Security adapts TLS to unreliable transports with retransmission, explicit sequence numbers, and record epochs. …

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