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Appendix B      SIP Call Flows
Call Flow Scenarios for Successful Calls
Step Action Description
1
INVITE—Cisco SIP IP phone A 
to Cisco SIP IP phone B
Cisco SIP IP phone A sends a SIP INVITE request to Cisco 
SIP IP phone B. The INVITE request is an invitation to 
User B to participate in a call session.
In the INVITE request:
•
The phone number of User B is inserted in the 
Request-URI field in the form of a SIP URL. The SIP 
URL identifies the address of User B and takes a form 
similar to an email address (user@host where user is 
the telephone number and host is either a domain name 
or a numeric network address). For example, the 
Request-URI field in the INVITE request to User B 
appears as “INVITE sip:555-0002@companyb.com; 
user=phone.” The “user=phone” parameter 
distinquishes that the Request-URI address is a 
telephone number rather than a user name.
•
Cisco SIP IP phone A is identified as the call session 
initiator in the From field.
•
A unique numeric identifier is assigned to the call and 
is inserted in the Call-ID field.
•
The transaction number within a single call leg is 
identified in the CSeq field.
•
The media capability User A is ready to receive is 
specified.
2
180 Ringing—Cisco SIP IP 
phone B to Cisco SIP IP phone A
Cisco SIP IP phone B sends a SIP 180 Ringing response to 
Cisco SIP IP phone A.