SBC SWe
Session Border Controller
Software Edition (SBC SWe)
The Ribbon Session Border Controller Software Edition (SBC SWe) is the industry’s only software-based, cloudnative SBC architected to enable and secure real-time communications in the cloud without compromise. The
SBC SWe features the same code base, resiliency, media transcoding, and security technology found in Ribbon’s award-winning hardware-based SBC 5000 Series and SBC 7000 Session Border Controller - without theappliance. Customers can deploy the SBC SWe as a Virtual Machine (VM) on industry-standard servers in adata center environment using a hypervisor, as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in an OpenStack cloud infrastructure, or as a VNF in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google
Cloud Platform (GCP). The SBC SWe operates seamlessly with the existing Ribbon SBC product portfolio.
Ribbon’s strategy capitalizes on its
heritage of enabling secure, reliable,and scalable real-time communications,beginning with the transition from TDM
to IP, and now into the cloud. Ribbon’s
SBC SWe is the only SBC in the marketplace architected toenable and secure real-time communications in the cloudwithout compromising on performance or scale. Startingat 25 sessions, and scaling to hundreds of thousands, theunique architecture of the SBC SWe allows customers
to define where on the performance curve their networkneeds to reside. The SBC SWe uses a microservices design
to separate signaling, media and transcoding to optimize
virtual network resources. Designed to be simple but robust,
and agile but predictable, the SBC SWe makes it easy forcustomers to reach new markets and new revenues withsecure SIP and Unified Communications (UC) services:Media Services•••••••••

Unleash real-time communications (RTC) performancewith automated scale on demand in the cloud
Be more responsive to your customers with optimized
operations efficiency, VNF activation in minutes (autoconfiguration)
Load-balance RTC traffic across the cloud for network
efficiency
Use the SIP-aware Load Balancer (SLB) to improve scaling
Deploy SBC services into new regions without a truck-roll,
reducing the delivery costs of real-time communications
Integrated analytics of network traffic to drive orchestrationof SBC VNFs
Subscription licensing flexibility to deal with the varying
traffic demands across the different interconnection points
Independently scale in a microservices architecture andmanage SBC signaling, media, and transcoding to optimize
network investment

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Transcoding G.711, G.722, G.722.1, G.723, G.726, G.729A/B,
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, EVRC/EVRC0, EVRCB/EVRCB0, iLBC, Opus,
T.38, SILK, EVS, Linear PCM (16 bits)
Wireline, wireless, clear channel codec and fax pass-through
VAD, Silence Suppression, Dynamic Jitter Buffer, DTMF
Tone Relay/ RFC2833/RFC4733 interworking
NAT/NAPT on media
DTMF Trigger Detection and Notification
Tones & announcements
Local Ring Back Tone (LRBT) support with centralized PSX
Policy Server
RTP inactivity monitoring
Video codec pass-through: H.265, H.264 AVC, H.264 SVC,
H.263+, H.263, H.261 and VP8, VP9Support up to 4 simultaneous SIPREC recordings per session
Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) - MSRP B2BA,MSRP over TLS, and MSRP-CEMA
T.140 Text over Internet Protocol (ToIP) to/from Baudot
interworking for TTY/TDD (Telecommunications Device forthe Deaf) equipment support

Management Capabilities••••••••••

Graphical-based wizards for ease of configuration
Secure embedded web-based management GUI
CLI, SSH
Centralized support by Ribbon RAMP (Ribbon Application
Management Platform)
SNMP V2/V3 status and statistics
Local logging of events, alarms, traps, and call traces
Ribbon DSI Level 0 support for storing CDRs, RADIUS
accounting records
Live Software Update (LSWU)
1:1 High Availability for integrated SBC
4:1 High Availability for integrated SBC with SLB front-end

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Lawful Intercept provisioning
Flexible licensing model for elastic scaling
Real time streaming of RTCP statistics for Ribbon Analytics
APIs for call notification event and call termination
Support for automated SBC VNF upgradesSignaling•
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Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA)
SIP, SIP-I/SIP-T, SIP/H.323
SIP protocol normalization/protocol repair, SIP Message
Manipulation
NAT/NAPT on signaling
Binary floor control protocol (BFCP)
Far-end camera control (FECC)
SIP-aware Load Balancer (SLB)
SIP over WebSocketProtocol Support••••••••••••••
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Session aware firewall, topology hiding
Line rate DoS/ DDoS and rogue RTP protection
Line rate malformed packet protection
TLS, IPsec (IKEv1/v2, ESP tunnel/transport mode) forsignaling encryption
Secure RTP/RTCP for media encryption
Support for STIR/SHAKEN Caller ID Authentication andVerification
Voice analytics to identify voice campaigns

Quality of Service (QoS)
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Bandwidth management
Call Admission Control (CAC) per trunk group, per zone
Per-call statistics
TOS/COS packet marking
6 Intel-based virtual CPUs
10 GB of RAM
4 virtual NICs (vNICs)
100 GB hard disk space

Certifications•

1:1 Integrated HA (High Availability) SBC
N:1 SBC with High Availability (HA) SIP-aware Load Balancer

Routing/Policy••••

Minimum Requirements

IPv4, IPv6, IPv4/IPv6 interworking
SSH, SFTP
SNMP, NETCONF, RESTCONF
HTTP/HTTPSRTP/RTCP
UDP, TCP
DNS, ENUM
NTP per RFC-1708

Deployment Options••

Security

Embedded policy/routing engine
Optional centralized policy/routing via Ribbon Centralized
Policy Server (PSX Server) using Diameter+
Screening, blocking, routing, presentation, call type filters
Route prioritization
Leading digit routing, international routing, URI based routing
Digit/parameter manipulation
E911 support, priority call handing
Survivable service for SIP clients when primary SIP Registrar
is unavailable
Routing based on Active Directory lookup
Call forking•••

MIcrosoft Teams Direct Routing including media bypass andLocal Media Optimization (LMO)
BroadSoft BroadWorks Platform
Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2

Software Platforms••••••VMware 5.0 and higher
KVM
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
OpenStackMicrosoft Azure

About Ribbon

Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) delivers communications software, IP and optical networking solutions to service providers,enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors globally. We engage deeply with our customers, helping them modernize their networks for
improved competitive positioning and business outcomes in today’s smart, always-on and data-hungry world. Our innovative, end-to-end
solutions portfolio delivers unparalleled scale, performance, and agility, including core to edge software-centric solutions, cloud-nativeoffers, leading-edge security and analytics tools, along with IP and optical networking solutions for 5G. We maintain a keen focus on ourcommitments to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters, offering an annual Sustainability Report to our stakeholders. To
learn more about Ribbon, please visit rbbn.com.

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