In today's business environment, the adoption of IP based telecommunications has emerged as a competitive imperative for both service providers and enterprises alike and being able to securely deploy, control, manage, and integrate the variety of IP communications components is vital. Sonus has developed the next generation of Session Border Control with the development of the Network Border Switch (NBS) product family.
Complete Application Coverage
The NBS product portfolio is configurable and can be deployed at the boundary between a carrier's IP network and its peering partners in the case of Peering, or between the carrier's network and its enterprise or residential customers for Access.
Flexible Control and Management
The Sonus NBS is adaptable enough to be deployed into any environment and can be installed:
- as a standalone system, with routing and policy engine onboard
- as an integrated part of an existing 3rd party network where routing information is received from a softswitch
- as a part of a fully integrated Sonus network with centralized routing provided by the industry leading PSC policy and routing engine
Bring Voice Switching Quality and Performance to IP Border Control
At Sonus, every packet is seens as a valuable component of a subscriber's communications. During overload conditions we view GR-477 as the standard as the rules to live by for IP, session based call rate and registration rate limiting. In overload conditions, the NBS is architected and quality tested to ensure that it will not drop calls, will not degrade call quality and will continue to handle new messages and back off new calls/regristrations as needed.
Media Services without more boxes
The NBS includes comprehensive, scalable media services within a single platform allowing for onboard auding transcoding support, DTMF and fax relay and interworking. By removing the need to "hairpin" media inteo a separate, dedicated media server, the NBS offers many benefits over the alternative architectures:
- Improved call quality. End to end latency is reduced by removing additional hops from the call path
- Operational efficiencies are achieved by reducing the number of vendors and systems that need to be managed in the network
- Simplified trobleshooting. By only needing to analyze a single set of logs and CDRs, problem isolation times can be significantly reduced
- Flexibility to scale independently. Media services can be scaled within the NVS separate to the sessions providing macimum flexibility and a highly cost effective solution.