The Sonus SBC SWe Session Border Controller is the industry's only software-based Session Border Controller (SBC) that delivers unmatched scalability with the same advanced features and functionality of hardware on a virtualized platform - without compromise.The SBC SWe features the same code base, resiliency, media transcoding and security technology found in Sonus' award-winning 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.Designed to be simple but robust, and agile but predictable, the SBC SWe makes it easy for customers to reach new markets and new revenues with secure SIP and Unified Communications (UC) services.