Two major developments regarding SBC Core southbound configuration and management are implemented in this release:

  1. Availability of RESTCONF (RFC 8040) compliant API to undertake HTTP-based automated attribute configuration and reporting
  2. Withdrawal of the proprietary RESTful API previously available to undertake HTTP-based automated attribute configuration and reporting

Ribbon Communications’ SBC Core products presently offer a proprietary RESTful API as an alternative to other mechanisms (such as EMA, CLI, BMC and the SOAP API) to access and manipulate SBC Core attributes, the latter based on data models defined in YANG (RFC 7950). While the other alternative management mechanisms are heavily used to accomplish SBC management, many customers prefer RESTful (or REST-based) APIs. Enterprise IT programmers are often intimately familiar with the use of REST APIs to programmatically access remote Web services, and as such they appreciate the ability to use a protocol with which they are already comfortable.

RESTCONF is a recent standardized REST-like protocol over HTTP (or HTTPS) for ac­cessing data defined in YANG using the datastores defined in NETCONF protocol. RESTCONF is not meant to replace NETCONF, but to instead provide a simplified interface that follows REST principles and is compatible with resource-oriented network element abstractions.


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