2002 Reports

SIPstone: Benchmarking SIP Server Performance

Schulzrinne, Henning G.; Narayanan, Sankaran; Lennox, Jonathan; Doyle, Michael

SIP-based Internet telephony systems need to be appropriately dimensioned, as the call and registration rate can reach several thousand requests a second. This draft proposes an initial simple set of metrics for evaluating and benchmarking the performance of SIP proxy, redirect and registrar servers. The benchmark SIPstone-A expresses a weighted average of these metrics.