SIP-terminal is designed to implement IP telephony within the distributed system configuration. IP telephony can be implemented with or without physical SIP-devices. Thus, the SIP-terminal allows organizing single and group calls between operators and SIP-devices in the Server/Remote Admin Workstation/Remote Client configurations.

Intellect can act both as a server and as a client. The SIP server for the Intellect SIP client can be either third-party Asterisk software or the Intellect's SIP server.

SIP-devices are configured on the settings panel of the SIP-terminal object created on the basis of the Computer object on the Hardware tab of the System Settings dialog box, and also on the settings panel of its child objects.

The SIP-terminal (both server and client) is configured in the following order:

1. Configure the Intellect SIP server (see Configuring the Intellect SIP server).
2. Configure the Intellect SIP client (see Configuring the Intellect SIP client).
3. Create and configure objects corresponding to address books (see Configuring the SIP Terminal Address Book).
4. Configure special terminal numbers (see Configuring Special Numbers of a SIP Terminal in Intellect).
5. If necessary, create and configure macros for working with a SIP-terminal (see Macros for working with a SIP terminal).
6. Configure terminal numbers (see Configuring SIP-terminal numbers in Intellect software package).
7. Select a speaker, microphone, and camera for each SIP-operator (see Selecting a speaker, microphone, and camera for a SIP operator).
8. If you need to work with SIP-devices and SIP-operators from the map, add the corresponding objects to the map (see Attaching objects to an interactive map layer).
9. Configure the SIP Panel interface object (see Configuring the SIP-panel interface object).