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Early offer and delayed offer
Delayed offer means the INVITE has no SDP. voice-class sip early-offer forced makes the outbound dial peer send an offer in the INVITE.
Learn in 5 minutes
- Define delayed offer
- State where RFC 3264 allows an offer
- Name the CUBE command that forces early offer
Visual
RFC 3264 allows the offer in the INVITE or in a reliable response.
Worked example
Read the forced offer The outbound early offer is ANCHOR_SDP. The carrier answer is CARRIER_SDP.
Vendor menus, ports, and license names change. Confirm before relying on a sentence that is not an RFC.
Fault
The carrier rejects the call. The outbound INVITE matches the inbound one: no SDP.
Content-Length 0 on that INVITE means no offer was sent.
Quiz
Ecosystem
Glossary, sister systems, and the integration seam for this room.
Analytics Amazon Connect can attach conversational analytics to an external voice system with a SIPREC connector. The analytics plane is not a second SIP proxy for the customer call.
Sources and go deeper
- RFC 3264 — last checked 2026-10
- RFC 3262 — last checked 2026-10
- Cisco CUBE basic SIP configuration — last checked 2026-10