With advent of Voice over IP, the real time streaming of data/audio/video also became critically important to be protected from eavesdropping or modification over the open internet. While Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) is a profile of the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), which can provide confidentiality, message authentication, and replay protection to the RTP traffic and to the control traffic for RTP, the Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP).
Tag: Data Privacy and SIP security in Voice over IP
Kamailio as Inbound/Outbound proxy or Session Border Controller (SBC)
role of an SBC is to shield the core network from external entities such as user agent's , carrier network while also providing security , auth and accounting services . In many cases SBC also provides NAT traversal and policy control features ( such as rate limiting , ACL etc ) . In advanced cases transcoding, topology concealment and load balancing is also achievable via a SBC such as Kamailio .
Telecom R & D 