OpenTouch Session Border Controller
The OpenTouch Session Border Controller (SBC) by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is a highly secure software solution designed to protect SIP trunks and enterprise communications. It serves as the demarcation point between the enterprise and SIP trunking providers, safeguarding against malicious VoIP attacks, SIP denial of service, fraud, and eavesdropping. The OpenTouch SBC offers secure and scalable SIP/media connectivity, including audio transcoding and network address translation (NAT) traversal for audio and video communications. It ensures cost-effective, secure conversations over the internet and with SIP service providers. The SBC features web-based management with built-in configuration templates, allowing settings and protocol adaptations for certified SIP trunking providers to be configured in a few clicks. It provides cost-effective interoperability by offering protocol adaptations for many SIP trunking providers.
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Sangoma Enterprise SBC
The Sangoma Enterprise Session Border Controller (SBC) is a hardware-based solution designed to secure and optimize real-time communications for medium to large businesses. It supports 25 to 250 concurrent calls and offers robust security features, including TLS and SRTP encryption, to prevent eavesdropping and ensure secure communication between IP phones and IP PBX systems. The Enterprise SBC facilitates seamless transitions between phone systems or SIP trunks, maintaining uninterrupted service even during catastrophic scenarios. Additionally, it securely connects remote users to the corporate phone system without the need for a VPN, enhancing flexibility and accessibility.
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FRAFOS ABC SBC Platform
The ABC Session Border Controller (SBC) by FRAFOS is a scalable solution designed for VoIP service providers and enterprises, capable of running on high-end hardware, appliances, and virtual machines. It offers secure session border control, signaling mediation, call routing, and advanced media server applications, addressing the dynamic needs of VoIP and NGN service providers. Key features include centralized management of multiple SBCs via the Cluster Configuration Manager (CCM), built-in support for announcements and transcoding directly on the SBC, and recording capabilities using SIPREC. The ABC SBC enhances network security through rate limiting, content control, topology hiding, and media control, effectively protecting against fraud and denial-of-service attacks. It supports up to 5,000 simultaneous calls on off-the-shelf hardware and can function as a VoIP load balancer.
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SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe)
The Ribbon SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe) is a cloud-native, software-based Session Border Controller designed to secure and optimize real-time communications across various deployment environments. It offers the same robust features as Ribbon's hardware-based SBC 5400 and SBC 7000 appliances, including extensive audio codec transcoding, signaling interworking, call admission control, and comprehensive security measures such as encryption and protection against Denial of Service attacks. The SBC SWe can be deployed as a Virtual Machine (VM) on industry-standard servers in data centers, as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in private clouds using OpenStack, or in public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This flexibility allows enterprises to scale their communications infrastructure efficiently while maintaining high performance and security standards.
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