Cisco Session Border Controllers
Increase revenue streams by scaling IP networks to fit new media types. (3:14 min)
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Cisco Session Border Controllers
Increase revenue streams by scaling IP networks to fit new media types. (3:14 min)
Optimize IP Network Interconnections
Cisco Session Border Control (SBC) solution is integrated
into Cisco routing platforms to control, secure, and manage real-time IP multimedia
traffic across enterprise and service provider network borders.
The benefits of SBC integration with L2/L3 services
include:
- Elimination of the need for overlay networks
- Elimination
of the need for standalone SBC appliances
- Builds on the security
and admission control features of the routing platforms
- Provides
VPN awareness and virtualization not easily achievable with traditional
SBC appliances
Cisco Session Border Control provides new revenue
opportunities, enhances quality, increases scalability, lowers costs and reduces
network complexities.
SBC Functional Deployment
The following deployment options (see
figure 1) are available for the Cisco Session Border Control solution:
- Service provider to service provider. Interconnecting IP networks
enhances the quality of VoIP and other real-time IP multimedia services
and reduces the cost and complexity of legacy TDM interconnections. In addition,
direct IP-IP interconnection enables new services (converged voice and data,
or voice and video, for example) that are not possible with TDM based interconnections.
- Service
provider to enterprise, or residential access. Deploy SBCs at edge of the
service provider network to interact with, manage and control the incoming
VoIP or video traffic from enterprise or residential customers. This incoming
traffic may need to be modified to handle any Network Address translation/Firewall
devices in-between, may need to be policed, or modified to handle any inter-protocol
communication from IP PBXs or end-user devices.
- Enterprise edge. Deploy SBC at the enterprise premises to provide inter-protocol communication
and management of VoIP and video traffic to and from the enterprise towards
the service provider or other enterprises.
The integrated Cisco Session Border Control provides
the flexibility, cost-efficiency, and scalability demanded by the trend of
converged services.
