SBC Core Key Features

General

• Stand-alone system platforms
• HA system platforms
• Includes an Embedded Routing Engine (ERE), performs DNS, ENUM lookups
• Supports IPv4, IPv6, IPv4/IPv6 interworking, SIP, H.323, GW-GW, SSH, SNMP, NTP, RTP/RTCP, FTP, UDP, TCP, DNS, and ENUM.
• Packet-to-packet call flows (B2B UA)
• Extensive SIP signaling and session handling
• Media relay and transcoding with pinhole control
• Local storage
• DoS protection
• Crypto functions (IPsec, TLS, SRTP)
• Transparency Profile (Refer to SBC SIP Transparency Implementation Guide)

Routing/Policy

• Integrated routing
• Embedded Routing Engine (ERE)
• DIAMETER+ queries to optional external centralized PSX Policy/Route Server with or without internal ERE fallback

(Refer to Routing and Policy Management)

Robust Security

• IP Trunk Groups
• Call Admission Control
• Rate Limiting
• Access Control Lists
• Traffic Policing
• IPsec
• Topology Hiding
• Split DMZ
• TLS Signaling
• SRTP
• Firewall/NAT
• DoS/DDoS Protection
• SIPS
• Dynamic Blacklisting
• Rogue RTP Protection
• Encrypted Communication
• Malformed Packet Protection

(Refer to Security Best Practices Guide for security best practices)

Media/Multimedia Services

• Audio codecs (Refer to Audio Codecs, Audio Support)
• Video codecs (Refer to Video Codecs, Video Support)
• Text codecs (Refer to Text Codecs)
• T.38 compliant relay or fall back to G.711, Dynamic Jitter Buffer, Fax/ Modem Detection, DTMF/Tone Relay/RFC2833/ RFC4733,
• BFCP, FECC, H.239, Presentation
• ICE (Refer to SDP Support)
• WebRTC (Refer to SBC for WRTC)

Management

• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Embedded Management Application (EMA) GUI interface
• REST API
• Secure Web Interface
• SNMPv2, SNMPv3

Billing

• CDR record generation
• CDR SFTP push to customer billing systems
• Rx Interface Support
• Rf Interface Support

The SBC Core supports the following proprietary SIP recording interfaces:

• SIPREC SIP-based session recording
• Call monitoring media capture tool (MCT)
• NICE session recording

Refer to Session Recording Support for additional information. 

• Port Redundancy / Geographical Redundancy (Refer to SBC Core Redundancy, SBC SWe Cloud Port Redundancy and Link Detection)
• N:1 Redundancy (Refer to SBC SWe Cloud Architecture for this SBC SWe Cloud feature)

Supported by SBC SWe Cloud only in this release.

(Refer to SBC Network Licenses for Cloud Deployments)