The 180-second clause in Microsoft's OPTIONS frequency rule contradicts itself as written ('more or less frequent'). Read together with the three-minute health window on the monitoring page, the likely intent is that an SBC sends OPTIONS no more often than every 60 seconds and no less often than every 180 seconds.

inferred · Checked 2026-09-24

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Teams Phone Direct Routing
Subsystem
SBC pairing
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-24
Status
inferred
Checked
2026-09-24

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). SIP OPTIONS pings and trunk keepalives: source note sip-options-keepalive-dr-frequency-reading. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-options-keepalive-dr-frequency-reading

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-options-keepalive-dr-frequency-reading,
  title  = {SIP OPTIONS pings and trunk keepalives: source note sip-options-keepalive-dr-frequency-reading},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-options-keepalive-dr-frequency-reading},
  note   = {Source note sip-options-keepalive-dr-frequency-reading, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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