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. 

Note

 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 Platforms*Software-Based PlatformsComments 


SBC

51x0/52x0/5400

SBC 7000

SBC SWe
(Virtual)

VMware/KVM

SBC SWe (Cloud)
Integrated SBC in OpenStack

D-SBC
OpenStack/VMware1

AWSGCPAzure
IP-Related Features

Link Detection:

Refer to SBC Core Redundancy for details.
Physical link detection(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(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)(error)(error)(error)

Standby packet port support

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

Refer to SBC Core Redundancy details.

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

(tick)

S-SBC: 4+1

M-SBC: 4+1

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

Note: Not in KVM		(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
SIP over SCTP(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
SRTP(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(tick)(tick)(tick)
Alternate/Multiple IP Support(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)

(tick)

(error)(error)
IPv6 Support(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)3(error)(error)
SLB(error)(error)

(tick)


(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)
Registration Display Enhancement(tick)(tick)

(tick)


(tick)

(1:1 deployments)

(tick)

S-SBC only
(1:1 deployments)

(tick)

(tick)

(tick)

Refer to SIP Registration
IPsec(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)
Media-Related Features
Fax transcoded calls(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)Refer to Fax Over IP
  • G.711–T.38 (V0)
(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)
  • G.711–T.38 (V3)
(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
  • T.38 (V0)–T.38 (V0)
(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)
Fax/Modem Fallback(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
UC (Video, BFCP, Content Share)(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)
GPU Transcoding(error)(error)

(error) (for VMware)

(tick) (for KVM)

(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)
Opus Transcoding(tick)(tick)


(tick)(tick)(error)

*SBC Core 5100 and 5200 hardware no longer supported

1Full support for VMware available starting with SBC 8.1.

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

3The SBC Core SWe/Cloud on AWS and GCP does not support IPv6. However, AWS infrastructure supports IPv6 and GCP does not support IPv6.


Functions Not Supported in SBC Microservices

The following functionalities are not supported by SBC Microservices:

  1. Direct Media and Antitrombone 

  2. Far end NAT traversal

  3. NICE

  4. Rx, Rf interfaces

  5. Fax detection

  6. ICE/STUN

  7. SIP REFER

  8. SIP REPLACE

  9. Two stage calls

  10. H323 support

  11. MS Teams

  12. Support for video only call