Michael Heckner wrote:
Hi Joao,
Joao Pereira schrieb:
Hi,
As many of you may know, we are undertaking several tests in order to test the interoperability between several PBX IP from different vendors. Until now, we were trusting that the VoIP IP PBX were good enough to be interconnected directly, however, one of the vendors have presented the "SBC" concept.
The "SBC" (Session Border Controller) is not a new concept since we were using it anyway when we setup a (Asterisk+SER+SIP Proxy) Box to handle the "on-net dialout" calls.
I'm now overwhelmed with the amount of SBCs that are suggested by the vendors to implement a solution. (http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/solutionbriefs/351085.pdf)
Can anyone drop me some lines about this? I urgently need some feedback on this.
the SBC must be present whenever you leave your IP network.
Ok, but can I do the same with a B2BUA in my SER/Asterisk box?
If you deal with residential users, and you work with a SIP Proxy, you want to hide your proxy and your internal topology from the outside. So you need an SBC there, or, speaking more precisly, one interface of the SBC must concentrate the external network traffic,
The same is true, when you do interconnection with other carriers, instead of publishing the IP address of your proxy, you provide them with (another) IP address assigned to an interface of the SBC.
The amount of SBC is dependng on the expected network traffic, and the amount of interfaces, you require. Some boxes work perfectly with logical interfaces, i.e. assign multiple IP addresses to a single physical interface.
Yes, thats something I can put in my SER/Asterisk box, instead of buying some proprietary SBC.
I propose to do detailed network and traffic engineering to ensure that you select an appropriate solution.
Do you know where can I find more information about VoIP WAN deployments? I want to know if the SBC is the only solution, or if it is the market demanding solution. Thats because I m already calling outside my LAN, and doing trunking with telcos, without the SBC....
Joao Pereira FCCN