Here are several VoIP troubleshooting checklists and tools, organized by focus area to help quickly identify and resolve common issues. These checklists are especially useful for IT admins, NOC teams, and VoIP engineers. Are they “the bees knees” of troubleshooting VoIP? No. In fact, if you have feedback or comments on improving these lists, please […]
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PJSIP is a free, open-source multimedia communication library written in C that is used for troubleshooting VoIP. PJSIP implements standard-based protocols such as SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE, targeting VoIP (Voice over IP) applications, including SIP signaling and media handling. You will find the project at github here. What Is the PJSIP Tool?
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This article discusses what SIP pings are, and how to use them in troubleshooting VoIP (Voice over IP) networking. A SIP ping in VoIP is a diagnostic method used to check the availability and responsiveness of a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server or endpoint. It’s similar in concept to an ICMP ping, but it uses
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When testing the Internet, there are several key tools we use in troubleshooting: one of them is ping. To verify a particular IP address is operational we “ping 192.168.0.1” from the command line to see if we get an answer back, letting us know that the system we are pinging and the network itself is
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Let’s start with some simple definitions of these protocols and how they work together. In Voice over IP (VoIP) to PSTN (telephone) network integration, MGCP and C15 can work together as part of a layered signaling architecture that bridges IP-based call control with traditional PSTN switching systems. Here’s how they fit and interact: MGCP (Media
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Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving 2021. Just released – Wireshark 3.6.0!!! Why is this important to me, you, and everyone who troubleshoots Voice traffic using Wireshark? Well, there are many changes to the voice related functionality in Wireshark in this (actually as part of the development 3.5.0 – you can read more on that here) release.
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Hi Everyone! If you are like me, you use Wireshark every day. For me that means troubleshooting many different network applications and traffic types, including Voice traffic – VoIP. With the development release of Wireshark version 3.5, the Wireshark folks announced some significant changes coming to the Voice capabilities set within Wireshark, and I hope
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