Marketing description

The SBC SWe features the same code base, resiliency, media transcoding and security technology found in Sonus' hardware-based Sonus SBC 5000 Session Border Controller Series. The only difference is how customers choose to deploy it: on industry-standard servers, in virtualized environments or as a hosted service. The SBC SWe operates seamlessly with the existing Sonus SBC product portfolio.
Sonus offers a common code base across its hardware and software SBC portfolio, giving customers investment protection and peace of mind about the security of their network. Starting at 25 sessions, the unique architecture of the SBC SWe allows customers to define where on the performance curve their network needs to reside.

Key selling points

• Rapidly extend interworking capabilities with just a license
• Deliver the same advanced SBC functionality and features to small, medium and large businesses anywhere in the world
• Deliver hosted SBC services from a virtual environment for scalable performance at a flexible price

Product features

• Security
  SBCs protect against Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks, safeguard against toll fraud and service theft, and provide media and signaling encryption to ensure confidentiality and protect against impersonation/masquerade.
• Multi-vendor interoperability
  SBCs normalize SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) signaling stream headers and messages to mitigate multi-vendor incompatibilities.
• Protocol interworking
  SBCs enable interworking between diverse protocols (i.e. SIP-to-H.323) or diverse codecs (i.e. g.711 to g.729 transcoding).
• Quality of service (QoS)
  SBCs enforce call admission control (CAC) policies, type of service (ToS) marking, or rate limiting for service quality assurance.
• Session routing
  SBCs route sessions across network interfaces to ensure high availability or enable least-cost routing (LCR).