Skinny Call Control Protocol




Not to be confused with Signalling Connection Control Part.

The Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) is a proprietary network terminal control protocol originally developed by Selsius Systems, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998.


SCCP is a lightweight IP-based protocol for session signaling with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, formerly named CallManager.[1][2] Examples of SCCP clients include the Cisco 7900 series of IP phones, Cisco IP Communicator softphone and the 802.11b wireless Wireless IP Phone 7920, along with Cisco Unity voicemail server. CallManager acts as a signaling proxy for call events initiated over other common protocols such as H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), ISDN and/or MGCP.




Contents






  • 1 Protocol components


  • 2 Origin


  • 3 Other implementations


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Protocol components


An SCCP client uses TCP/IP to communicate with one or more Call Manager applications in a cluster. It uses the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) over UDP-transport for the bearer traffic (real-time audio stream) with other Skinny clients or an H.323 terminal. SCCP is a stimulus-based protocol and is designed as a communications protocol for hardware endpoints and other embedded systems, with significant CPU and memory constraints.


Some Cisco analog media gateways, such as the VG248 gateway, register and communicate with Cisco Unified Communications Manager using SCCP.



Origin


Cisco acquired SCCP technology when it acquired Selsius Corporation in 1998.[3] For this reason the protocol is also referred to in Cisco documentation as the Selsius Skinny Station Protocol. Another remnant of the origin of the Cisco IP phones is the default device name format for registered Cisco phones with CallManager. It is SEP, as in Selsius Ethernet Phone, followed by the MAC address. Cisco also has marketed a Skinny-based softphone called Cisco IP Communicator.



Other implementations


Other companies, such as Symbol Technologies, SocketIP, and Digium, have implemented the protocol in VoIP terminals and IP phones, media gateway controllers, and softswitches. An open source implementation is available in the Asterisk and FreeSWITCH systems.[4] IPBlue provides a soft phone that emulates a Cisco 7960 telephone.[5] Twinlights Software distributes a soft phone implementation for Android-based devices.[6] The Cisco Unified Application Environment, the product acquired by Cisco when they purchased Metreos supports using SCCP to emulate Cisco 7960 phones allowing applications to access all Cisco line-side features.



See also


  • Voice over Internet Protocol


References





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  2. ^ "Call States Sent to SCCP Endpoints by Cisco CallManager". Cisco.


  3. ^ "News @ Cisco: Cisco Systems to Acquire Selsius Systems, Inc. for $145 Million". Archived from the original on 9 November 2005.


  4. ^ "mod_skinny - FreeSWITCH - Confluence". wiki.freeswitch.org.


  5. ^ http://www.ipblue.com/ IPBlue


  6. ^ http://www.twinlightssoftware.com/ Twinlights Software




External links



  • Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP) - Cisco Systems

  • Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP) - Fragment of a VoIP course dealing with SCCP, with sample captures

  • Alternative SCCP channel driver for Asterisk. Sourceforge Project called chan-sccp-b




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