RFC 3261 says a client receiving 503 Service Unavailable should try an alternate server and should not send further requests to that server for the Retry-After period if one is given.

Checked 2026-10-02

Vendor
not restricted
Product
not restricted
Subsystem
SIP response codes
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 3261
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). Calls-per-second limits on SIP trunks and dialers: source note sip-trunk-cps-limits-rfc3261-503-alternate. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-cps-limits-rfc3261-503-alternate

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-trunk-cps-limits-rfc3261-503-alternate,
  title  = {Calls-per-second limits on SIP trunks and dialers: source note sip-trunk-cps-limits-rfc3261-503-alternate},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-cps-limits-rfc3261-503-alternate},
  note   = {Source note sip-trunk-cps-limits-rfc3261-503-alternate, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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