ABOUT
Since its introduction to the public 'SIP Inspector' has been downloaded more than initially expected :-) The number just keeps growing. It is used on all continents. Companies like Avaya, Nortel Networks, Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel, Deutsche Telekom Ag, France Telekom, Fujitsu, Conexant, Microsoft, Motorola,... are just few examples where it is in use. Several universities showed interest too.
While I like working on this project, it is getting hard for me to find a spare time for its development. Regular job and family responsibilities eat most of my time. The most of development happens at night, when I should be sleeping :-) It is always nice to see people using it. That is what keeps me going. At this point I would invite all good souls out there to consider donating some money. It is optional but very much appreciated. I am considering idea to offer advertising options through the tool. If you are interested feel free to contact me to discuss further. No matter what, the tool is and will always be free. However, donations always help. Contributors will be acknowledged accordingly!
HISTORY SIP Inspector was conceived sometime in June 2008. The premise behind its creation was there should be a tool easy enough to use and powerful enough to test and troubleshoot various SIP signaling cases. As VoIP is booming, more and more interoperability issues arise. On top of that there are very few good utilities to simulate different problematic scenarios. Working on a SIP as a developer, I mainly used SIPp. A wonderful tool offered by HP. However, the tool is not easy to use. It requires a lot of time and effort to get up to speed. So, I used it as an inspiration to create much simpler tool: SIP Inspector. My goal is to get people working with it in less than couple minutes. It can also be used as a starting point for all those who want to learn a thing or two about SIP. The tool provides intuitive GUI to create different SIP signaling scenarios. If you are a beginner and really do not know much about SIP, default scenarios are offered for UAC and UAS cases. I recommend first to study them and then to experiment with adding your own messages and commands. Starting from version 0.7 it is possible to send RTP packets from a captured pcap file. This is extremely beneficial, since it taps into the world of RTP. Therefore using 'SIP Inspector' is a convenient way to test full VoIP. The tool is codec agnostic. It works with any codec, as long as a Wireshark trace has the right content. I hope you enjoy using it!
Žarko Coklin |