The following table lists selected SBC Core key features, and their availability in this release by product.

Features in this table are not supported in all platforms/environments. 


 


 This is not a comprehensive list of features. For a more inclusive and detailed listing of features, refer to the Feature Guides.


 

(tick) = Supported
(error) = Not supported

Feature Availability

 Hardware-Based PlatformsSoftware-Based PlatformsComments 

 

SBC 51x0 / 52x0 / 5400

SBC 7000

SBC SWe
(Virtual)

VMware/KVM

SBC SWe (Cloud)
Integrated SBC in OpenStack

D-SBC
OpenStack/VMware1

IP-Related Features

Link Detection:

Refer to SBC Core Redundancy for details.
Physical link detection(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)NOTE: Physical link detection is supported only on Direct I/O Packet Interfaces on the SBC SWe.
ARP Probing(error)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick) 

Standby packet port support

(error)(tick)(error)(error)(See note 2 below)Refer to SBC Core Redundancy for details.
Geographical Redundancy (GRHA)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)

Refer to SBC Core Redundancy details.

N:1 Redundancy(error)(error)(error)(error)

(tick)

S-SBC: 4+1

M-SBC: 4+1

Refer to Distributed SBC N:1 Redundancy Architecture for details.
EVRC-B Codecs(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)Pass-through 
H.323 Support(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)gap for cloud
SR-IOVN/AN/A(tick)(tick)(tick) 
Direct I/O SupportN/AN/A(tick)N/AN/A 
DHCP Support(error)(error)(error)(tick)(tick) 
NIC Teaming(error)(error)(tick)

Note: Not in KVM		(error)(error) 
SIP over SCTP(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error) 
SRTP(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error) 
Media-Related Features
Fax transcoded calls(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)Refer to Fax Over IP
  • G.711–T.38 (V0)
(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)
  • G.711–T.38 (V3)
(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)
  • T.38 (V0)–T.38 (V0)
(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)
Fax/Modem Fallback(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)
UC (Video, BFCP, Content Share)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error) 
GPU Transcoding(error)(error)

(error) (for VMware)

(tick) (for KVM)

(tick)(tick) 
Opus TranscodingNot available for 5100/5200???? 

 

1Full support for VMware to come in Release 8.1.

2Supported for four packet port configuration only. Not supported for any other packet port configuration.