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AudioCodes Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC) Products

MediantTM 3000 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)

About AudioCodes

AudioCodes Ltd. (NasdaqGS: AUDC) designs, develops and sells
advanced Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged VoIP and Data
networking products and applications to Service Providers
and Enterprises. AudioCodes is a VoIP technology leader
focused on VoIP communications, applications and networking
elements, and its products are deployed globally in Broadband,
Mobile, Cable, and Enterprise networks. The company provides
a range of innovative, cost-effective products including Media
Gateways, Multi-Service Business Gateways, Residential
Gateways, IP Phones, Media Servers, Session Border Controllers
(SBC), Security Gateways and Value Added Applications.
AudioCodes underlying technology, VoIPerfectHD™, relies
primarily on AudioCodes leadership in DSP, voice coding and voice

processing technologies. AudioCodes High Denition (HD) VoIP

technologies and products provide enhanced intelligibility, and

a better end user communication experience in emerging Voice

networks.

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Product specications are subject to change without notice.

Ref. # LTRM-30033 06/10 V.1

• Based on three core foundations: Perimeter
Defense, Mediation and Service Assurance

• Standards-based solution with proven
interoperability

• Software license scalability from 250 up to 1000
SBC sessions

• Encryption for communication privacy and
prevention of eavesdropping

• Transparent communication for mobile users

• Survivability with PSTN Failover

• IP-to-IP protocol normalization and media
transcoding

• Carrier-Grade Simplex and High-Availability
congurations

• Proven Voice Quality superiority

• Media Processing for Transcoding, Gain Control,
DTMF/FAX, etc.

• Extensive ltering and admittance policies

AudioCodes’ MediantTM 3000 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)
is a member of AudioCodes family of Enterprise Session Border Controllers,
enabling connectivity and security between Enterprise and Service Providers’
VoIP networks. The Mediant 3000 E-SBC provides Perimeter Defense as a way
of protecting enterprises from malicious VoIP attacks; mediation for allowing
the connection of any PBX and/or IP-PBX to any Service Provider; and Service
Assurance for service quality and manageability. Designed for high capacity and
high performance, the Mediant 3000 E-SBC is based on AudioCodes’ VoIPerfect
best-of-breed Media Gateway technology, scaling up to 1000 secured SBC VoIP
sessions. The native implementation of SBC functions on the Mediant 3000TM
VoIP Media gateway platform provides a host of additional capabilities that
are not possible with standalone SBC appliances, such as VoIP gateway and
PSTN routing functionality. This enables enterprises to utilize the advantages of
converged networks and eliminate the need for standalone appliances.

Why Enterprise Session Border Controllers?

Session Border Controllers were traditionally deployed at the border of service
provider core networks. Both Enterprises and Service Providers have now
realized the essential need of enterprise-based session border controllers,
located at the customer premises for addressing the security, mediation and
SLA requirements of the Enterprise. The Mediant 3000 E-SBC provides an

open and exible architecture for all Enterprise deployments, acting as the

demarcation point between an Enterprise and a SIP Trunking provider, an

enterprise and a hosted Unied Communication service provider or an

enterprise and other organizations for direct VoIP calling.

Integrated PSTN connectivity

Customers can safely and transparently migrate from traditional PSTN to SIP
Trunking with the Mediant 3000 E-SBC, a cost-effective method of increasing the
value of their data network, while also protecting their investment in legacy PBX
equipment. In addition to E1/T1 interfaces, the Mediant 3000 E-SBC supports
high-density PSTN interfaces, such as T3, STM-1 and OC3.

Vast mediation capabilities and proven interoperability

In a world of growing choices of voice coders and SIP avors, enterprises and

services providers alike must ensure interoperability for successful

integration and service delivery. The Mediant 3000 E-SBC, with its extensive

media processing capabilities, supports a wide range of voice coders with
the ability of transcoding between narrowband and wideband voice coders,

including SIP normalization, fax handling, gain control and numerous
additional media processing features. As a direct evolution of the eld-proven

and highly interoperable Mediant 3000 VoIP media gateway, the Mediant 3000
E-SBC provides unparalleled interoperability, enabling mediation between an

extensive list of IP and TDM PBXs and SIP Trunking providers.

High Availability and survivability

The Mediant 3000 E-SBC supports high-availability congurations with reliable,

“1+1” redundancy of all system components, ensuring no loss of active sessions
during failure time. The Mediant 3000 E-SBC is equipped with PSTN interfaces
that can also provide local survivability via PSTN fallback connectivity (including
E911), when the WAN is unavailable.

Mediant

TM

3000 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)

Applications

Sip Trunking Solution

Using the Mediant 3000 E-SBC, enterprise customers can seamlessly

migrate from legacy PSTN connectivity to cost-effective SIP Trunking

Services. The Mediant 3000 provides security, session mediation and

service level assurance services, connecting the enterprise to multiple

SIP Trunking providers, while maintaining interoperability and

manageability.

Contact Center Solution

Contact Centers place the SIP Application Server in the LAN, with SIP

User Agents deployed remotely across the WAN. The Mediant 3000

E-SBC monitors these User Agents, and resolves any NAT traversal

issues they might face. In addition, with its vast media processing

features such as Voice Activity Detection, Answering Machine, Call

Progress Tone, and DTMF detections, the Mediant 3000 E-SBC provides

support for outbound calling campaigns, utilizing the same hardware

resources.

Hosted Centrex Solution

IP Centrex solutions rely on VoIP technology, whose implementation may

present signicant challenges, especially to businesses without prior

VoIP experience. One of the challenges is service continuity during WAN

outages. The Mediant 3000 E-SBC, with its Stand Alone Survivability

feature, is able to monitor registrations to the SIP Proxy, so that if

connectivity is lost the Mediant 3000 E-SBC can continue to serve in

both internal and external calling capacities.

Mediant 3000 E-SBC in Service Provider Networks

As Enterprises strive to control their communication operating and

equipment costs, outsourcing Voice and Data infrastructure to a Service

Provider is becoming an attractive option. The Mediant 3000 E-SBC

offers Service Providers, who are delivering hosted and managed

communication services, a clear and easy-to-manage demarcation point,

combining Security, Mediation Services, and Service Level Assurance.

E1/T1/

T3/STM-1

FireWall

Mediant 3000 E-SBC

Router

Fallback

SIP Trunk

SIP Server

SP WAN

PSTN

IP Phones

LAN

Mediant 3000 E-SBC in Enterprise Networks

Enterprises are motivated to become more productive, efcient, and

responsive to their internal users. The convergence of secured voice

services, Stand Alone Survivability, Mediation Services and Service

Level Assurance, ensures a high level of investment protection,

cost-optimization and support for the growing communication needs of

the Enterprise.

The high-density Mediant 3000 E-SBC is a well-suited platform for

converging VoIP Gateways and Session Border Controllers, thereby

improving the enterprise headquarters’ service level for local, branch

and mobile users.

Benefits for Service Providers

• A highly integrated device for providing SIP Services to

Enterprises

• Extensive interoperability and partnerships that extend across

multiple vendor devices and protocol implementations

• Enhanced SIP Mediation capabilities, which enable SIP Trunking

in a variety of TDM-PBX and IP-PBX customer environments

• Simplied management & maintenance using a unied

management tool

• Assuring standalone survivability at the customer premises

during WAN outage

Benefits for Business Customers

• A highly integrated device for secured SIP Trunking and PSTN

access, forming a single and managed point of demarcation for

VoIP networks

• An integrated VoIP Media Gateway and E-SBC, reducing CAPEX

and OPEX, eliminating the need to purchase and deploy

different devices and simplifying maintenance and management

• Future-proof solution with the ability to support various SIP

Trunking and UC applications

• Multiple service provider connectivity to optimize tariff rates

• Local survivability and PSTN Failover upon WAN network

connectivity failures

Specifications

Capacities

Max Sessions Up to 1000 SBC, IP to IP transcoding, or SRTP to RTP sessions

Security

Access Control Denial & Distributed Denial of Service protection through line rate ltering using White/Black Lists, including bandwidth throttling
VoIP rewall RTP pinhole management according to SIP offer/answer model. Service theft protection by avoiding rogue RTP

Encryption and Authentication TLS, SRTP, HTTPS, SSH, IPSec, IKE, SNMPv3, Client-side Authentication, RADIUS
Privacy Topology Hiding, User Privacy

Trafc Separation Physical separation (on E1/T1 conguration only) or VLAN interface separation for multiple Media, Control and OAM interfaces

Interoperability

SIP B2BUA Full SIP transparency, mature & broadly deployed SIP stack
ITSP and PBX support Interoperable with many SIP trunk Service Providers and PBX vendors, such as Verizon, Skype and Microsoft OCS
Transport Mediation SIP over UDP to SIP over TCP or SIP over TLS, IPv4 to IPv6, RTP to SRTP
Header manipulation Programmable header manipulation. Ability to add/modify/delete headers
URI and Number manipulations URI User and Host name manipulations. Ingress & Egress Digit Manipulation
Hybrid PSTN mode Connect to TDM PBXs or PRI/CAS trunks for least-cost routing or fallback. Also useful for gradual enterprise migration to SIP. Support for T1/E1/J1, T3, OC-3, STM-1

physical interfaces

Transcoding and Vocoders Coder normalization including: transcoding, coder enforcement and re-prioritization. Extensive vocoder support:

Wireline: G.711a/mu, G.723.1, G.726, G.727, G.729A/B/E, EG.711; Wireless: GSM-FR, GSM-EFR, MS-GSM, AMR, iLBC, EVRC, EVRC-B; Wideband: AMR-WB, G.722

Signal Conversion DTMF/RFC2833, Inband/T.38 Fax, Packet-time Conversion

NAT Local and Far End* NAT traversal for support of remote workers
Signal Detection Voice Activity, Call Progress Tone, and Answering Machine

Voice Quality and SLA

Call Admission Control* Deny excessive calls based on session establishment rate, number of connections and number of registrations (per SIP trunk or routing domain)

Packet marking 802.1p/Q VLAN tagging, DiffServ, TOS

Stand Alone Survivability* Maintain local calls in the event of WAN failure. Outbound calls use PSTN Fallback for external connectivity (including E911)

Impairment Mitigation Packet Loss Concealment, Dynamic Programmable Jitter Buffer, Silence Suppression/Comfort Noise Generation, RTP redundancy, broken connection detection
Transparent Media Low latency, unprocessed payload transfer

Gain control Fixed & dynamic voice gain control

Media Anchoring* Hair-pinning of local calls to avoid unnecessary media delays and bandwidth consumption
Redundancy* “Five 9s” availability with 1+1 hardware redundancy, Active calls preserved

SIP Routing

Routing methods Request URL, Source/Destination IP Address, Fully Qualied Doman Name, ENUM*
Alternative Routing and load Detect proxy failures and route to alternative proxies. Load balance across a pool of proxies

balancing
Multiple LANs Support for up to 16 separate LANs

Hardware Specications

IP Networking: Dual Redundant 100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports and additional two Dual Redundant 100 Base-T Ethernet ports for OEM and Control (Available on the E1/T1

conguration only)

PSTN 1 OC-3 or STM-1 APS optical links, 1 to 3 T3 (DS3) electrical links, up to 63/84 E1/T1 links
Enclosure 4-slot, 2U cPCI chassis

Dimensions (HxWxD) 88mm x 482.6mm x 296.8mm
Weight Approx. 35.27 lb (16 kg), fully loaded

Power 48 V DC Dual Feed, with up to 2 DC Power modules, 100–240 V AC redundant Dual Feed

Regulatory Compliance

Telecommunications FCC part 68, TBR4 and TBR13
Safety and EMC

Environmental NEBS level 3 (on OC3/STM-1/T3 congurations): GR-63-Core, GR-1089-Core, Type 1 & 3, ETS300 019

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UL 60950

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FCC part 15 Class A

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CE Mark (EN55022 Class A, EN60950, EN 55024, EN300 386)

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*to be available on v6.2