[Serdev] So who/what is SER for, anyway?

[Dragos Vingarzan]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > no. I have never implied this. I just wanted to use SER's base as a
> > foundation from some signaling routing nodes... isn't this a proxy?
>
> You want to use it as IMS routing nodes. Apparently, these are not SIP
> proxies. What a SIP proxy is and what it is allowed to do is very
> clearly defined in The Standard. SER claims nothing more than to be one
> (I think. Haven't read the blurbs in a long time).
>
When 90% of what they do is to proxy message, I would call them proxies
and forget about appearances ;-)... but here we are getting into endless
discussions. I have already described some of the things that they are
doing...
>
> > I never asked about a App Server platform. I am not interested into that
> > area. The CSCFs deal only with routing signaling. Well, yes, they are a
> > little smarter than simple SIP proxies, but not by much.
>
> If it requires a B2BUA, it does things that in a pure SIP world belong
> into a application server. Even though I think that writing a B2BUA on
> top of SER is possible. Due to its design, you cannot reuse tm, though.
>
again, no, it does not require any B2BUA... in my opinion... feel free
to contradict me...

-Dragos