Back to Back User Agents For Telecommunications

SIP Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA) Servers are one of the most important and powerful types of SIP Servers used to develop and offer value added features. B2BUA servers are gaining more focus as they become ubiquitous throughout the industry, and are becoming the primary engine for more and more SIP Servers in NGN and IMS networks. This white paper provides managers in the VoIP and real-time multimedia industry an overall understanding of B2BUA servers. Better understanding of B2BUA servers can help managers understand the value, and the tradeoffs, of choosing a B2BUA server as the framework for developing a wide range of SIP applications and SIP services.