Newport Networks Enhances Session Border Control With Industry-First Geographic Resilience and Link Aggregation; Release 2.0 of
June 01 2005 - 6:45AM
Business Wire
Newport Networks is announcing Release 2.0 software for its 1460
Session Border Controller adding industry-first geographic service
resilience, link aggregation (802.3-2002) capabilities, and a
series of enhancements that deliver carrier-class reliability,
bandwidth utilization and profitability. "VoIP has reached a
critical mass where customers demand both high quality and savings,
and Service Providers are looking for session border controllers to
ensure PSTN-caliber performance," says Newport Networks' Chairman
Terry Matthews. "The 1460 has been architected as a true
carrier-class platform from the start. Newport has timed the first
major enhancement to set higher standards for the US VoIP Market."
New in Release 2.0 First generation session border controllers
addressed basic security issues. They were developed to enable
completion of voice and multimedia calls behind firewalls and
Network Address Translation (NAT) devices but not architected to
meet the performance, resilience and scalability requirements of
mature VoIP deployments. The Newport Networks 1460 delivers the
industry's most advanced, high-end solution offering critical
features necessary for a carrier-class platform. Release 2.0
provides: Geographic Service Resilience: With this latest release,
the 1460 session border controller becomes the first to deliver
true geographic resilience, safeguarding against both node and
network failure. Two1460s in different locations can automatically
assume traffic from one another in the event of disaster scenarios,
router failure or extended power outages. Automatic switchover of
traffic is performed, avoiding service disruption and providing
disaster recovery capabilities on a par with the PSTN. Link
Aggregation to Bolster Reliability: The 1460 is the first session
border control architecture to include Link Aggregation
(802.3-2002) functionality, commonly deployed in routers. This
optimizes the flow of traffic across 8 physical links, allowing
traffic to continue to flow even in the event of a link failure,
vastly improving service reliability. Regulatory Compliance: The
1460 solution complies with CALEA and Emergency 911 mandates. In
keeping with requirements, Lawful Intercept is performed `without
the end-users' knowledge and monitored details are delivered in
real-time over secure interfaces to the law enforcement agency.
These features are added in such a way that call processing
performance is not impacted. VLAN Support for Premium Services: The
1460 architecture allows service providers to establish SIP-based
Virtual LANs (VLANs) between their network core and customer sites
with extensive traffic policing capabilities, enabling guaranteed
performance and optimal bandwidth utilization. VLAN capabilities
can also be applied on the trunking side to ensure optimum physical
interface utilization while policing at the VLAN level enforces
peering agreements "Policing" Profitability: The Release 2.0
software includes expanded traffic policing capabilities for
regulating bandwidth across multiple customer connections. Precise
media policing on a per connection basis gives providers the
granular control of bandwidth utilization needed to accurately
design and consistently meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Meanwhile signaling policing limits the effects of signaling Denial
of Service attacks on the core network. Session Admission Control
(SAC): Allows bandwidth and session type (e.g. voice, instant
messaging, and video) limits to be set for corporate groups and
individual users. Additionally, "Anti-tromboning" (or Media
Release), for use among end-users behind a main corporate IP
address, allows internal VoIP calls to take place within the
corporate network with only the signaling traffic sent to the
session border controller. This minimizes congestion in the public
access network. Release 2.0 of the Newport Networks 1460 session
border controller will ship in the North American and international
markets through third quarter 2005. Visitors to SuperComm can find
out more about Newport Networks which will be in booth number #
19042 or in the SIP Pavilion in booth # 67088F About Newport
Networks Group PLC. Newport Networks Group PLC, listed on the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange in May
2004, has designed and developed the 1460 Session Border Controller
to solve existing commercial and technical problems in the
provision of Voice over IP (VoIP) and Multimedia over IP (MoIP)
services. The 1460 Session Border Controller addresses the key
service delivery issues of quality and security, enabling service
providers to create new revenue streams from VoIP and MoIP while
controlling the cost of delivery. Based in the UK and North
America, Newport Networks has an experienced team headed by
Chairman Terry Matthews and CEO John Everard. The team has a proven
track record of identifying new service provider network
technologies, developing products and managing the growth of
international businesses. Further information at
www.newport-networks.com
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