NexTone says its new Linux-based session border controller sets new performance benchmarks in the industry in terms of calls per second.
“In our network, NexTone performs at rates of over 150 calls per second in multiple SIP-based applications, with superior results,” said Sam Shiffman, executive vice president of service provider PointOne.
The new NexTone release also enables the session border controller, which in the previous release supported 800,000 routes, to handle 2 million routes. That kind of performance is enabled by the company’s policy enforcement platform, the RSM, which provides dynamic policy management, faster route generation and a 500 percent increase in call detail record system performance.
“Because we have an embedded policy enforcement engine in the SBC it’s affordable and we can do it on a real-time basis,” said John Longo, NexTone’s new vice president of marketing.
Additionally, the new release offers improvements in H.323/SIP protocol interworking, media processing, security, lawful intercept, accounting, service reach, and operational and management functions. All that helps optimize VoIP interconnect at the network edge, according to NexTone.
“At the edge of the network there’s a wealth of information,” said Longo. “We can look at what’s happening at the edge and make real-time decisions at the edge – so we can complement and offload the softswitch. We can offload routing some traffic [that is going to another SBC] from the softswitch.”
That ability to make intelligent decisions at multiple points in the network is important, he adds, because how and where in the network service providers manage call control and session management varies. “… assuming switching happens in core always is wrong,” Longo said. “NexTone lets service providers manage call flow at many different places in the network.”
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