[Asterisk-Users] SIP Server question / recommendations

[Jim Van Meggelen]

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> Sent: December 15, 2004 8:10 PM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] SIP Server question / recommendations
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> I am new to *, and this is my first post on the user list.
> 
> I have had success with making / receiving calls to a SIP 
> hardware Phone 
> and the
> Console Channel Driver.
> 
> My SIP phone *requires* that I register with a SIP server. 
> For this, I 
> used the NIST
> sip presence server (a version that I downloaded almost a year ago).
> 
> I have a problem with getting asterisk to register properly, (using 
> domain names) etc,
> but I did get it to work.
> 
> Can anyone please suggest what would be a good SIP server to 
> use, or is 
> there a way in which
> I can use asterisk itself as a SIP server for my phone and 
> make calls to 
> it using the console ??

Asterisk will do well if you just want to hook a few SIP phones up to
it.

For a really big SIP environment, you'll want to look at SER (Sip
Express Router).