Cloud-native Nokia Session Border Controller sets benchmark for performance and security in fixed, cable and mobile networks
02 November 2017 - 7:01PM
2 November 2017
- Nokia's field-proven Session Border Controller (SBC) software
enables service providers to deliver secure, high-quality voice and
video services in hybrid and virtualized network environments
- Enhanced SBC robustly defends against Distributed Denial of
Service (DDoS) attacks and unauthorized access without impacting
the customer experience
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced its
next-generation Session Border Controller software, offering
service providers dramatically higher levels of performance and
security for their cloud-native deployments.
Nokia SBC acts as the gatekeeper at the edge of the network,
preventing cyber-attacks, IP-bandwidth overload and unauthorized
access attempts launched against communication interfaces from
devices and other peer networks. The version announced today
provides enhanced capabilities to help customers better manage and
protect media and signaling streams within and across their
networks, ensuring high-quality, uninterrupted delivery of voice
and video.
New features and capabilities of the latest Nokia SBC software
release include:
- Built-in Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring to alert the
operator to quality issues
- Lawful interception enhancements to meet different regional
regulatory requirements
- Cloud scaling automation with Nokia CloudBand Application
Manager (CBAM)
- Support for Optimal Media Routing (OMR) and Session Recording
Protocol (SIPREC)
Extensive testing by Miercom, the leading independent
organization specializing in networking and communications product
testing, revealed that Nokia's newest cloud-native SBC delivers
performance on par with hardware-based SBC solutions, and far
surpasses that of other comparable cloud-based products the firm
previously tested. Key findings from Miercom's testing report
revealed that Nokia's new SBC software:
- Delivered carrier-grade performance for the most demanding
signaling and media plane use cases when implemented as Virtual
Network Functions (VNFs)
- Provided complete mitigation of DDoS attacks without any
degradation in voice or video call handling and quality
- Delivered high-density transcoding, encryption, decryption and
other compute-intensive tasks, ensuring high-quality, private
connections for voice and VoIP calls
- Demonstrated high resiliency in failover tests under a high
call load (800 calls per second with Transport Layer Security) with
100 percent successful handover of established calls
- Supported the highest per-VNF capacity for software-based media
and signaling compared to other pure-cloud SBC
competitors
Rob Smithers, CEO of Miercom, said: "Nokia's cloud-based
SBC software demonstrated impressive levels of performance,
security and scalability in our testing, delivering high signaling
and media plane performance, powerful encryption/decryption
capabilities, strong DoS and DDoS protection, and more. It offers
service providers a safe, reliable and affordable way to migrate
their session border controllers to a cloud environment."
Bhaskar Gorti, president of Applications & Analytics at
Nokia, said: "All service providers deploying IP-based
communications services need session border control to protect the
network at the boundaries. We're the only vendor to offer a
cloud-native SBC solution that is field proven in large
communication service provider networks with tens of millions of
subscribers. The validation by Miercom underscores our ability to
deliver world-class products that help customers ensure the safety,
reliability and performance of their IP networks."
Nokia SBC enables communication service providers to
cost-effectively control, secure and manage access, peering, IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), VoLTE and over-the-top (OTT)
applications within a single software package, and helps deliver a
high-quality voice and video experience for end users. Designed for
cloud deployments, Nokia's SBC software is fully virtualized and
supports OpenStack and VMware telco-cloud environments, and is
currently used by more than 90 service providers globally,
including 12 of the top 25 mobile network providers.
AvailabilityNokia new Session Border Controller release
18.0 is expected to be available at the end of November 2017.
Resources:
- Miercom Report: Cloud-based Nokia SBC Performance Testing and
Function Validation
- Website: Nokia SBC
- Website: Nokia SBC Data Sheet
- Website: Nokia SBC Brochure
- Website: Nokia CloudBand
- Webinar: Migrate SBCs to the Cloud
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