The Anatomy of Session Border Controllers (2 of 7)

Session Border Controllers (SBCs) were introduced in the first half of this decade to mainly address transport of VoIP calls across disparate IP networks. Over time a diverse set of services have blossomed while a new carrier architecture has been born (IMS) which together has morphed the scale, QoS, security, media conversion, and other requirements of the SBC.

There are a range of views on which SBC approaches best address these challenges. For example, opinions vary on the appropriate feature set, the balance between software and hardware, stand alone versus integrated approaches, and centralized versus distributed architectures.

This session will hear from leading SBC product vendors looking at their product positioning, what features they have included and/or excluded, and how they have architected and built their products to address what they see as the market requirements.

SBC Session Border Controller VoIP IPv4 IPv6 Routing ENUM LCR Least Cost Routing Peering Transit Interconnect Voice Application IMS QoS Security Media Conversion Carrier Telco Telecom Product System Architecture Proxy Media RTP SIP H323 Intel Hardware Tony Downes Principal Technologist Data Connection Don Troshynski Technical Director Acme Packet Ravi Gorur Vice President Product Management Marketing for SBC NextPoint Networks Glen Gerhard VP Product Management Sansay Bob Bradley Product Line Manager Sonus Networks

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Speakers:
Tony Downes
Principal Technologist
Data Connection

Don Troshynski
Technical Director
Acme Packet

Ravi Gorur
VP, Product Management & Marketing for SBC
NextPoint Networks

Glen Gerhard
VP Product Management
Sansay

Bob Bradley
Product Line Manager
Sonus Networks