An evaluation of VoIP traversal of firewalls and NATs within an enterprise environment

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-228

  Stukas, Michael ^a   Sicker, Douglas C ^b  

^a AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterprise; Firewall; NAT; SIP; VoIP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ENTERPRISE; NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (NAT); SIP; VOIP;

PRIVATE TELEPHONE EXCHANGES;

EID: 4344707213     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ISFI.0000037877.05070.93     Document Type: Article

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