At 07:54 PM 2/6/2006, Michael Heckner wrote:>Hi Joao,
>
>Joao Pereira schrieb:
>>Hi,
>>As many of you may know, we are undertaking several tests in order to
test
>>the interoperability between several PBX IP from different vendors.
Until
>>now, we were trusting that the VoIP IP PBX were good enough to be
>>interconnected directly, however, one of the vendors have presented the
"SBC" concept.
>>The "SBC" (Session Border Controller) is not a new concept
since we were
>>using it anyway when we setup a (Asterisk+SER+SIP Proxy) Box to handle
the
>>"on-net dialout" calls.
>>I'm now overwhelmed with the amount of SBCs that are suggested by
the vendors
>>to implement a solution.
>>(http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/solutionbriefs/351085.pdf)
>>
>>Can anyone drop me some lines about this? I urgently need some feedback
on
>>this.
>
>the SBC must be present whenever you leave your IP network.
No.
With all respect I would urge people not to use words like "must" if
there is
no prove for necessity. As long as I have a counterproof -- most of our
customers
under our consultancy, very big ISPs among those, actually don't use SBCs --
it is
very easy to show how mistaken such a statement is and how optional these boxes
are.
I would actually be easy to go much further. SBCs cause lot of pain. In the
field
some SBCs disconnected lot of subscribers because they are single point of
failure and
they fail. (Even if you have a pair, given the fact that both pair members use
the
same software and software failure is one of the most frequesnt failure causes,
it happens that the complete pair fails.)
Other SBCs, faithful to the principle "to be safe, filter all things you
don't understand"
filtered useful valid traffic which SBC's implementors didn't
foresee/understand.
Which successfuly prohibited use of messaging/presence services.
I would consider money put in SBCs a poor investment. I think companies that
give
the money to education and bonuses of their administrative IT personal will meet
better operational results.
-jiri
>If you deal with residential users, and you work with a SIP Proxy, you want
to hide your proxy and your internal topology from the outside. So you need an
SBC there, or, speaking more precisly, one interface of the SBC must concentrate
the external network traffic,
>
>The same is true, when you do interconnection with other carriers, instead
of publishing the IP address of your proxy, you provide them with (another) IP
address assigned to an interface of the SBC.
>
>The amount of SBC is dependng on the expected network traffic, and the
amount of interfaces, you require. Some boxes work perfectly with logical
interfaces, i.e. assign multiple IP addresses to a single physical interface.
>
>I propose to do detailed network and traffic engineering to ensure that you
select an appropriate solution.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>>Thanks!
>
>>Joao Pereira www.fccn.pt
>
>Regards,
>
>Michael
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