Session Border Controller (SBC)

Deliver trusted, carrier-grade, real-time communications such as VoIP, VoLTE, and Rich Communications Services with protocol support, scalability, and manageability in all types of IP networks. Oracle Communications Session Border Controller evolves your networks toward 5G and the cloud.

Learn more about Oracle Communications Session Border Controller.

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Explore the features and benefits of Session Border Controller

Assure STIR/SHAKEN compliance

Validate incoming VoIP calls with the STIR/SHAKEN framework of interconnected standards.

Vet and validate the authenticity of traffic

Implement a STIR/SHAKEN REST client, which, upon receiving an initial out-of-dialog SIP INVITE, sends a REST request to a STIR server for attestation or verification of the calling party identification.

Monitor operations

Using Kubernetes as a container orchestrator, you can harness the power of autohealing

Evaluate, track, and troubleshoot operations based on extended STIR/SHAKEN client statistics.

Configure a flexible SBC

Deploy as an access SBC, interconnect SBC, or both, enabling the consolidation of access and interconnect functionality in a single system.

Integrate standard IMS functions

Take advantage of full IMS functions used at access or interconnect borders and simplify integration with next-generation service delivery architecture.

Consolidate signaling traffic within networks

Simplify management, and reduce capital and operating expenses.

Enable service buildouts and consolidation

Initiate new service buildouts and the consolidation of service infrastructure at access borders.

Protect the infrastructure from threats

Protect the infrastructure from threats while maximizing reach, reliability, and the quality of the user experience.

Accelerate service offerings or expansions

Implement or expand IMS or IP services at interconnect borders, driving down time-division multiplexing costs and expanding service provider partnerships.

Select from a broad array of platforms

Choose the best device for your needs from a wide range of Oracle platforms at different price and performance points. Oracle Acme Packet platforms feature high availability, carrier-grade manageability, and redundancy for uncompromised quality, interoperability, and security.

Learn more about Acme Packet platforms

Deploy the SBC as a Virtual Network Function

Deploy the SBC as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in a standalone instance or within an orchestrated virtual environment. Each way ensures functionality, security, interoperability, and reliability.

Group instances of virtualized and physical SBCs together in a cluster

Group instances of virtualized SBCs with their counterparts on purpose-built platforms to create “hybrid clusters,” providing a way to introduce them gradually and attain even greater deployment flexibility and network agility.

Use your public cloud of choice

Support deployment across various public clouds.

Manage session management and service delivery platforms

Deploy session management and service delivery platforms—including SBCs, load balancers, core network signaling management platforms, and policy management platforms—as VNFs.

Orchestrate VNFs in a variety of environments

Orchestrate VNFs in various environments with third party orchestration solutions using the SBC’s embedded REST APIs.

Support REST APIs

Enable zero-touch instantiation, remote configuration, and monitoring of SBC VNFs using REST APIs.

Simplify and scale the network IP signaling core

Overcome the challenges inherent in routing large numbers of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)–based voice, video, instant messaging, and multimedia sessions within and between access and interconnect networks of service providers with Oracle Communications Session Router.

Datasheet: Session Router (PDF)

Deliver adaptive load balancing

Scale to support millions of subscribers without network disruption by deploying the SBC in conjunction with Oracle Communications Subscriber-Aware Load Balancer as a member of a cluster.

Datasheet: Subscriber-Aware Load Balancer (PDF)

Benefit from embedded management

Utilize powerful embedded management options such as command-line interface and REST APIs.

Monitor and troubleshoot network issues

Use the SBC’s integrated monitoring capabilities, in conjunction with Oracle Communications Operations Monitor, to capture and analyze all required signaling messages and media from the network, providing full correlation and quality metrics in real time.

Simplify network operations management

Manage and monitor all SBCs and related session delivery products with a single-pane-of-glass view provided by Oracle Session Delivery Management Cloud Service.

Deploy an SBC certified for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

Deliver Microsoft Teams Direct Routing in a multitenant fashion. Efficiently provide a hosted telephony integration into Teams for enterprise customers. Support Operator Connect with Oracle’s SBC.

Why choose Oracle Communications Session Border Controller?

Comprehensive security

Secure all access, interconnect, and peering borders, providing protection against malicious or malfunctioning endpoints and encrypting traffic for privacy.

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Performance, capacity, and scalability

Select from a wide range of SBC appliances or a virtual offering that scales by performance and capacity.
Reliability and quality

Ensure your network and service infrastructure have the capacity to support high quality communications with a solution built for stringent uptime requirements.
Revenue and cost optimization

Control costs and increase revenues with options for integrating many IMS functions.

Learn more about Oracle Communications Cloud Native Session Border Controller.

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Explore the features and benefits of Cloud Native Session Border Controller (SBC)

Take advantage of greater flexibility, agility, and reusability

The microservices-based architecture simplifies individual network processes to enable greater flexibility, agility, and reusability. Additionally, the microservices architecture can accelerate the development of large, complex networks while improving lead time, deployment frequency, failure rate, and recovery.

Scale independently and adapt to fluctuations in traffic patterns

Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC allows media, signaling, transcoding, and other common services to scale independently and adapt to fluctuations in traffic patterns.

Harness the power of autohealing

Using Kubernetes as a container orchestrator, you can harness the power of autohealing microservices, which allow instances to be automatically deleted and recreated whenever there’s evidence of an issue.

Accelerate software delivery and shorten release cycles

Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC embraces DevOps principles and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices, enabling rapid development, testing, and deployment cycles for new features and updates.

Invoke automated testing via REST

Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC offers an automated test suite with prepackaged test cases. The automated test suite can be invoked via REST from CD pipeline tools for pre- and postoperations checks.

Experiment with new services

With independent lifecycle management, each microservice can be updated independently, minimizing the need for human intervention and reducing the amount of testing required. This increases opportunities for innovation by allowing you to experiment with new services.

Solution Brief: The future of automation in cloud native voice networks

Simplify correlation and troubleshooting with common services

Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC is compatible with Prometheus and Alert Manager for metrics and alarms and Grafana for customized KPI visualizations; it also provides default files that can be easily loaded into these toolsets. Real-time logging is supported with standard protocols for flexible visibility using time series databases such as OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. The solution supports OpenTelemetry protocols for tracing using tools such as Jaeger and Grafana Tempo.

Build a custom environment without technology lock-in

Use of common services helps ensure all containers provide telemetry in the same framework, simplifying correlation and troubleshooting. These tools allow you to monitor multiple network functions across vendors and aggregate all the data to visualize an entire network in one place.

Leverage integrations with AI and machine learning tools

Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC exposes its metrics and alarms in real time to an observability layer that can either be customized or fed into a data lake for integration with AI and machine learning tools.

Simplify data collection

Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC simplifies data collection for troubleshooting with a data collection utility that’s designed to fetch data from across the various systems and package it for easier support.

Manage settings and validate configurations

For better security in distributed cloud environments, Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC includes a console that provides centralized identity access management and control. Manage settings through a graphical user interface and validate configurations.

Why choose Oracle Communications Cloud Native SBC?

Increased agility and innovation

Keep pace with customers’ rapidly evolving demands by leveraging a cloud native architecture that facilitates faster time to market for new features and services.
Enhanced scalability and elasticity

Optimize resource use and meet peak traffic demands efficiently through a microservices architecture that allows individual services to scale on demand.
Improved observability and troubleshooting

Simplify troubleshooting and issue resolution with open source tools for logging, metrics, and tracing that provide deep insights into network performance.
Cost optimization

Take advantage of cloud native deployments to optimize costs by using shared infrastructure and leveraging automation to streamline operations.