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- Alert), VP marketing and business development North America at AudioCodes, said this certification was critical for AudioCodes. “This important certification demonstrates our vision to provide an easy migration path from legacy TDM environments to pure SIP services using a common platform,” said Ben-Levi. “Together with our unique SIP Select gateway position and our IP Phones and Session Experience Manager, we are simplifying Genesys customers’ and integrators’ connectivity and quality monitoring needs.”

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Also this week, ZyXEL introduced its Series of 10G and Gigabit Web-Managed Switches to be used in the SMB market. Mandira Srivastava reported that due to changes in network technology the need for growth of gigabit networks is in high demand.

“As compared to basic, fast Ethernet solution, gigabit Ethernet when implemented across a network and desktop can boost performance. A new series of Web-managed 24 and 48 port 10G switches (XGS1910) and gigabit switches (GS1910) has been introduced by ZyXEL Communications (News - Alert), a provider of secure broadband networking, Internet access, connected home and routing products,” said Srivastava.

Steven Joe, executive vice president of channel business for Americas at ZyXEL explained in a press release that these switches are revolutionary and will change the way businesses operate. “ZyXEL’s new switches deliver a cost and performance breakthrough to small and medium-size businesses, as well as, the education and hospitality markets. We’re providing affordable, energy-efficient, IPv6-ready, web-managed switches with the richest L2 features available to meet our customers’ current and future mobility and cloud computing demands.”

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Finally this week, Sonus revealed that it would allow service providers and enterprises to have access to its SBC 5100 Session Border Controller (SBC). Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributor reported on the announcement.

“This product was orderable on a limited basis since May 22, 2012, according to SIP communications specialist Sonus Networks. The company has designed the Sonus SBC 5100 to enable enterprises and tier two/three service providers simplify their infrastructure and deploy new applications such as video and Unified Communications (News - Alert),” reported Shukla. “SBC’s enable enterprises to cut costs and deliver new feature-rich SIP-based applications that can improve enterprise productivity.”

Jason Groenjes, director of Enterprise Architecture, said it has found Sonus Network’s products to be extremely reliable and full of user-friendly features and services. “With Sonus, we are able to quickly activate new inter-connections which drive greater customer satisfaction and faster revenue generation,” said Groenjes.

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The Importance of Session Management in SIP Communications

to the SBC, which acts as a firewall,” said Konrad. This firewall is important because it can stop the SIP messages and do what you need them to in terms of measuring for security, quality, and origin, then sending the messages out to the other side, or the PBX (News - Alert). This interference of the SBC allows for more precise pinpointing of latency issues over the network, and security problems if there is an intrusion.

In theory, you can go straight through from the SIP provider to the PBX without the SBC, but the SBC negotiates the interoperability of protocols. If a business has legacy systems, such as an IVR, that is not compatible with a SIP environment, instead of ripping out these legacy systems, the SBC can communicate between the SIP provider and the IVR. “The SBC is the traffic cop and connectivity

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Session Border Controllers Allow Enhanced Integration for Unified Communications

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Maaii Deploys Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director

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China Telecom Deploys Acme Packet's Net-Net Session Director SBCs

- Alert) SBCs and Net-Net Session-aware Load Balancers across some of the cities. By deploying the Acme Packet, China Telecom will receive support for both consumer voice over IP (VoIP) and hosted enterprise unified communications (UC) services offered by the company.

“As China's largest communications service provider, China Telecom will serve as a leader in providing next-generation communications across the country through its IMS deployment,” said Tim Ziemer, vice president of North America and Asia Pacific Japan sales at Acme Packet. “Our SBCs will securely streamline China Telecom's IMS initiatives to deliver next-generation voice, video and UC services to subscribers, and also support mobile applications in the future."

China Telecom’s customers can save cost via Acme Packet's scalable, interoperable solution. China Telecom could also accelerate time-to-market its IMS services. The telecom company will also have the benefit to save operation costs by replacing legacy soft switches with the interoperable, flexible and highly scalable Net-Net Session Director.

Acme Packet's Net-Net Session Director session complies with Compliance with VoIP regulations. The SBCs also protects against malicious denial of service attacks and non-malicious overloads.

Acme is a specialist in session delivery network solutions. The company’s Net-Net product family fulfills demanding security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks.

Acme Packet was recently in the news when Bouygues Telecom deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session Director SBCs in its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, supplied and integrated by Alcatel-Lucent (News

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TMCnet Session Border Controller Week in Review

- Alert) to create a new SIP backbone for business, residential, mobile and wholesale carrier customers on the island nation. PrimeTel will use Sonus’ SBC 9000 series softswitches and its ASX Telephony Feature Server. "Sonus was the one firm capable of providing an end-to-end solution with SIP trunking, session border control, subscriber voice services, PSTN interworking and network management,” said Steve Lewis, general manager of technology at PrimeTel. 

Sonus had more news this week, as the company also announced an upcoming webinar, where interested parties can learn more about SIP communications and the role of session border controllers. The focus of the webinar is on the role of a session border controller in the enterprise and how to choose the best solutions. The webinar will be held on May 23.

That’s all the news from the session border controller space this week. Check back with TMCnet soon for all the latest!

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- Alert) Net-Net Session Director session border controllers to connect its VoIP core network to other service providers. "We are building a next-generation IP-based network to offer innovative mobile, voice and data services to over 400,000 customers across Canada and this network required a proven, secure and interoperable session border controller," said Ante A. Rupcic, VP core network, technical department, WIND.

All in all, it was a very eventful week in the session border controller space. Check back with us for more news in the future!

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Improving NAT Session Logging with Flexible NetFlow

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