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AudioCodes Software Enterprise Session Border Controller
[section_header ctatype="filecta" background_clr="bgc-plum" text_theme="theme-dark" title="AudioCodes Software Enterprise Session Border Controller" image="3879" filecta_label="Download PDF" filecta="3880"]The AudioCodes Software Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC) Server Edition and Virtual Edition provide a flexible and scalable SBC solution that meets the requirements of today’s datacenter infrastructures. E-SBC supports wide-ranging SIP interoperability, ensures high-quality service, and enables scalable, reliable, and secure connectivity between different VoIP networks.[/section_header][section_grid background_clr="bgc-lgray"][sg_item title="Benefits"] Designed for deployment in standardized datacenter environments Supports network function virtualization Simplifies and accelerates SBC deployments Offers comprehensive security, interoperability, and reliability Delivers excellent service performance and voice quality Flexible licensing options for cost-effective scalability Runs on dedicated COTS servers and in virtualized environments [/sg_item][sg_item title="Key Features"] Scalable to thousands of SBC sessions Extensive SIP mediation capabilities Supports remote workers and mobile SIP clients Perimeter defense against denial of service, fraud, and eavesdropping VoIP quality monitoring and enforcement Branch survivability during WAN failure Active/standby high availability [/sg_item][/section_grid][section_content][gsc_item format="content-a4" image="182018"] Server Edition Runs on dedicated, commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) servers Aimed at highly scalable environments Virtual Edition Runs in virtualized datacenter environments Supports VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM systems Cloud environments: OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, and Cloudband Extensive Mediation Capabilities and Proven Interoperability E-SBC includes comprehensive media security and SIP normalization capabilities. It provides full interoperability with an extensive list of IP PBX systems, unified communications solutions, and SIP-trunking services. Security and Reliability E-SBC offers robust protection for an IP communications infrastructure. It prevents fraud and service theft and guards against cyber-attacks and other events that could impact service. E-SBC also maintains the high quality needed for enterprise VoIP communications with active/standby high availability. Advanced call routing mechanisms, network voice quality monitoring, and branch survivability capabilities minimize communications downtime. Applications SIP trunking Hosted PBX and UCaaS IP contact centers Remote and mobile worker support SIP mediation between UC and IP PBX systems Residential VoIP [/gsc_item][/section_content][omnitable column="col-4"][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col] Capacities [/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-2"] Virtual Edition [/omnitable_col][omnitable_col] Server Edition [/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]Max Signaling Sessions[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-2"]6,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]32,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Max Media Sessions[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-2"]6,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]24,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Max SRTP–RTP Sessions[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-2"]4,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]16,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Max Registered Users[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-2"]30,000[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]120,000[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col span="span-4"] Security [/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]Access Control[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]DoS/DDoS line-rate protection, bandwidth throttling, dynamic blacklisting[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]VoIP Firewall[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]RTP pinhole management, rogue RTP detection and prevention, SIP message policy, advanced RTP latching[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Encryption and Authentication[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]TLS, DTLS, SRTP, HTTPS, SSH, client/server SIP Digest authentication, RADIUS Digest[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Privacy[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Topology hiding, user privacy[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Traffic Separation[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]VLAN/physical interface separation for multiple media, control, and OAMP interfaces[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Intrusion Detection System[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Detection and prevention of VoIP attacks, theft of service, and unauthorized access[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col span="span-4"] Interoperability [/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]SIP B2BUA[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Full SIP transparency, mature and broadly deployed SIP stack, stateful proxy mode[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]SIP Interworking[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]3xx Redirect, REFER, PRACK, session timer, early media, call hold, delayed offer[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Registration and Authentication[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]User registration restriction control, registration, and authentication on behalf of users, SIP authentication server for SBC users[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Transport Mediation[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]SIP over UDP/TCP/TLS/WebSocket, IPv4/IPv6, RTP/SRTP (SDES/DTLS)[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Header Manipulation[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Ability to add/modify/delete SIP headers and message body using advanced regular expressions (regex)[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]URI and Number Manipulations[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]URI user and hostname manipulations, ingress and egress digit manipulation[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Transcoding and Vocoders[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Coder normalization including transcoding, coder enforcement and re-prioritization, extensive vocoder support: G.711, G.723.1, G.726, G.729, GSM-FR, AMR-NB/WB, SILK-NB/WB, Opus-NB/WB[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Signal Conversion[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]DTMF/RFC 2833/SIP, T.38 fax, packet-time conversion[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]WebRTC Controller[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Interworking between WebRTC devices and SIP networks Supports WebSocket, Opus, VP8 video coder, ICE-Lite, DTLS, RTP multiplexing, secure RTCP with feedback[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]NAT[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Local and far-end NAT traversal for support of remote workers[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col span="span-4"]Voice Quality and SLA[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]Call Admission Control[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Based on bandwidth, session establishment rate, number of connections/registrations[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Packet Marking[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]802.1p/Q VLAN tagging, DiffServ, TOS[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Standalone Survivability[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Maintains local calls in the event of WAN failure[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Impairment Mitigation[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Packet Loss Concealment, Dynamic Programmable Jitter Buffer, Silence Suppression/Comfort Noise Generation, RTP redundancy, broken connection detection[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Voice Enhancement[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Transrating, RTCP-XR, Acoustic echo cancellation, replacing voice profile due to impairment detection, Fixed & dynamic voice gain control[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Direct Media (No Media Anchoring)[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Hairpinning of local calls to avoid unnecessary media delays and bandwidth consumption[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Voice Quality Monitoring[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]RTCP-XR, AudioCodes Session Experience Manager (SEM)[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]High Availability (Redundancy)[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]SBC high availability with two-box redundancy, active calls preserved[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Quality of Experience[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Access control and media quality enhancements based on QoE and bandwidth utilization[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Test Agent[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Ability to remotely verify connectivity, voice quality, and SIP message flow between SIP UAs[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col span="span-4"]Management[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]OAM&P[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Browser-based GUI, CLI, SNMP, INI configuration file, REST API, EMS[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Multi-Tenancy[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Advanced multi-tenant SBC partitioning[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col span="span-4"]SIP Routing[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]Routing Methods[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Request URL, IP address, FQDN, ENUM, advanced LDAP, third-party routing control through REST API[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Advanced Routing[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]802.1p/Q VLAN tagging, DiffServ, TOS[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Criteria[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]QoE, bandwidth, SIP message (SIP request, coder type, etc.), Layer-3 parameters[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Redundancy[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Detection of proxy failures and subsequent routing to alternative proxies[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Routing Features[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]Least-cost routing, call forking, load balancing, E911 gateway support, emergency call detection and prioritization[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]SIPRec[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col span="span-3"]IETF standard SIP-recording interface[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row headerrow="header-row"][omnitable_col span="span-4"]Virtual Edition VE SBC Minimum Requirements[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][omnitable_row][omnitable_col]Hypervisor[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x, Linux KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Virtual NICs[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]2 (standalone) 3 (high availability)[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Memory[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]2 GB[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Virtual CPUs[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]1[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]Disk Space[/omnitable_col][omnitable_col]10 GB[/omnitable_col][/omnitable_row][/omnitable][section_cta ctatype="filecta" text_theme="theme-dark" title="Take this information to go." background_img="143229" filecta_label="Download a PDF" filecta="3880"]