Audiocodes MEDIANT 800 E-SBC Datasheet

AudioCodes Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC) Products

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.

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Mediant

• A highly integrated device for VoIP, Data,
Security & Access, forming a single managed
point of demarcation

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

• Standards-based solution with proven intero
perability

• Software license scalability up to 25 secured
SBC VoIP 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

• Proven Voice Quality superiority

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

• Extensive ltering and admittance policies

800 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)

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AudioCodes’ Mediant 800TM Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)
is a member of AudioCodes family of Enterprise Session Border Controllers,
enabling connectivity and security between Small Medium Businesses (SMB)
and Service Providers’ VoIP networks.

The Mediant 800 E-SBC provides Perimeter Defense as a way of protecting
companies 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 as a cost-effective appliance,
the Mediant 800 E-SBC is based on AudioCodes’ Mediant 800 Multi-Service

Business Gateway, which combines AudioCodes’ eld-proven VoIP and network

services with a native host processor, allowing the creation of purpose-built
multi-service appliances, providing smooth connectivity to cloud services, with
integrated quality of service, SLA monitoring, security and manageability. The
native implementation of SBC functions on the Mediant 800 Multi-Service
Business Gateway for SMB provides a host of additional capabilities that are not
possible with standalone SBC appliances, such as VoIP mediation, data routing,
WAN access, data security, survivability, and third party value-added services
applications. 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.

Enterprise Session Border Controller and Security Services

AudioCodes’ Mediant 800 E-SBC is designed as a secured VoIP and data
platform. Enhanced Media Gateway security features include encryption
schemes, such as SRTP for media, TLS for SIP control, IPSec for management,
and additional features. A fully featured Enterprise-class Session Border
Controller provides a secured voice network deployment, based on the
embedded Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA). Data security functions include
an integrated Stateful Firewall, IDS/IPS, and SSL for remote user access and
site to site VPN.

Integrated PSTN connectivity

AudioCodes’ Mediant 800 E-SBC is built upon a highly interoperable VoIP Media

Gateway, which can be delivered in several pre-dened congurations: a single

E1/T1/J1 trunk and up to 4 BRI ports (8 calls) or 12 analog (FXS/FXO) ports.
In addition, the Mediant 800 E-SBC provides enhanced dialing plans and voice
routing capabilities along with its SIP to SIP mediation, allowing business

customers to enjoy the benets of SIP Trunking services, IP Centrex connectivity,
Unied Communications, as well as exible PSTN and legacy PBX connectivity

to VoIP.

LAN, Data Routing and WAN Access

AudioCodes’ Mediant 800 E-SBC is optimized for wire-speed delivery of data and
wireless services supporting up to 12 10/100 Base-T PoE LAN ports (802.3af)
and an integrated WiFi (802.11b/g/n) Access Point. The Integrated switch
modules enable support for IP phones and other PoE-powered devices. The
Mediant 800 E-SBC is equipped with a versatile WAN interface supporting
10/100/1000 copper and optical GigaBit Ethernet, and a selection of serial
data transmission interfaces including T1, ADSL2+, VDSL, and SHDSL, providing

great exibility in connecting to Service Provider networks. Data routing

capabilities are provided by static as well as dynamic routing protocols,
including support for RIP, OSPF and BGP.

Mediant

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800 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)

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 800 E-SBC, with its

extensive media processing capabilities, supports a wide range of voice
coders as well as SIP normalization, fax handling, gain control and

numerous additional media processing features.

As a direct evolution of the eld-proven and highly interoperable

Mediant family of VoIP media gateways, the Mediant 800 E-SBC provides

unparalleled interoperability, enabling mediation between an extensive

list of IP and TDM-based PBXs and SIP Trunking providers.

Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)

AudioCodes Mediant 800 E-SBC supports enhanced IP Quality of

Service (QoS) enforcement and Quality of Experience (QoE)

Monitoring. Leveraging the BroadSoft PacketSmart embedded agent
(a SaaS-based lifecycle management solution), the Mediant 800
E-SBC enables service providers and multi-site enterprises to assess
networks, certify VoIP deployments, and measure, monitor, track, and help
optimize the QoE of their VoIP services. The PacketSmart solution is
either offered as a public cloud service or within the customer’s data
center in a private cloud deployment. AudioCodes’ Mediant 800
E-SBC also supports enhanced IP Quality of Service (QoS), including

thernet frame tagging (802.1p), IP packet marking (Diffserv), and trafc

shaping.

Survivability Services

Customers served by a centralized, SIP-based IP Centrex server
(or branch ofces in distributed enterprises) may face service

discontinuities in case of WAN failure. The integrated SAS (Stand- Alone

Survivability) feature of the Mediant 800 E-SBC enables internal ofce

communication between SIP clients (e.g., IP Phones), along with PSTN

fallback, in case of disconnection from the centralized IP Centrex server

or IP-PBX.

Value-Added Services by an Open Platform for 3rd-Party
Applications

AudioCodes’ Mediant 800 E-SBC extends the exibility of a standalone

SBC with the built-in Open Solution Network (OSN) server option (based
on an Intel processor). Independent Software Vendors and OEM
customers can utilize this integrated, general purpose server to host
their own applications (e.g., IP-PBX, IVR, Call Center, Conferencing, and
more).

Applications

Sip Trunking Solution

Using the Mediant 800 E-SBC, SMB customers can seamlessly migrate
from legacy PSTN connectivity to cost-effective SIP Trunking Services.
The Mediant 800-ESBC provides security, session mediation and service
level assurance services, connecting the SMB to multiple SIP Trunking
providers, while maintaining interoperability and manageability.

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 800 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 800 E-SBC can continue to serve in both

internal and external calling capacities.

Mediant 800 E-SBC as a demarcation point for Service
Providers

As small and medium 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 800 E-SBC offers Service Providers, who are delivering hosted
and managed communication services, a clear and easy-to-manage
demarcation point, combining Secured VoIP, Data Routing and Data
Security, WAN Access, Mediation Services, and Service Level
Assurance.

SMB Network

IP Phones

LAN

PBX

IP

Mediant 800 E-SBC

PSTN Fallback

PSTN

SIP Server

SP WAN

Mediant 800 E-SBC in SMB Networks

Small and medium Enterprises are motivated to become more

productive, efcient, and responsive to their internal users. The

convergence of secured voice services, Stand-Alone Survivability,
Data Routing and Security, WAN Access, 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.

Benefits for Service Providers

• A highly integrated device for VoIP, Data, Security & Access, forming a

single managed point of demarcation

• 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

• Quality of Experience (QoE) lifecycle management solution

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 24

Interfaces

PSTN Capacity Up to 12 analog PSTN interfaces or 4 BRI interfaces (8 calls) with S/T network interfaces, and NT/TE termination

Single E1/T1/J1 span module*, The conguration is xed and is not eld upgradable or changeable

Networking Interfaces

WAN (Optional) WAN interface 10/100/1000 Base-T Copper, Support for T1*, SHDSL*, ADSL2+*

LAN 2 congurations: 4 ports 10/100/1000Base-T plus additional 8 10/100Base-TX ports, 2 ports 10/100/1000Base-T

PoE- Power-Over Ethernet on all ports is optional (Compliant to 802.3af-2003 with auto-detection Up to 15.4W per port), PoE management
WiFi* (Optional) WiFi Access Point support for 802.11 a/b/g/n

OSN Server Platform (Optional)

Single Chassis Integration Embedded, open Network Solution Platform for third-party services
CPU Multipule options
Memory 1G RAM

Storage SATA storage

Security

Access Control White/Black Lists, Denial of Service protection
VoIP Firewall and deep RTP pinhole management according to SIP offer/answer model. Service theft protection by preventing rogue RTP*
packet inspection
Encryption and Authentication TLS, SRTP, HTTPS, SSH, IPSec, IKE, SNMPv3, Client Side Authentication, RADIUS
Privacy Topology Hiding, User Privacy

Trafc Separation Physical or VLAN Interface Separation (Media/OAM/Control)

Interoperability

SIP Standalone SIP B2BUA, Netann (RFC4240), MSCML (RFC5022) or RFC 4117 transcoding device control. Full SIP transparency, mature & broadly deployed SIP stack
ITSP and PBX support Interoperable with many SIP trunk Service Providers and PBX vendors

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 analog and T1/E1/J1*

Transcoding and Vocoders Coder normalization, including: transcoding, coder enforcement and re-prioritization, Extensive vocoder support: Wireline: G.711a/mu, G.723.1, G.729A/B/E, Wideband: G.722*, AMR-WB*
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 Fixed & Dynamic Gain Control*, DTMF/RFC2833, Packet-time conversion

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

Intelligent Voice Multiple queues for granular prioritization of VoIP over other non-real time trafc types, Integrated Queuing and scheduling schemes (Strict Priority, Class based Prioritization queuing, fairness)
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

Gain control Fixed & dynamic voice gain control

Media Anchoring Hair-pinning of local calls to avoid unnecessary media delays and bandwidth consumption
Integrated BroadSoft Full QoS Monitoring (Jitter, Packet Loss, Delay and MOS), full lifecycle management and troubleshooting
PacketSmart™ SLA
Monitoring and VoIP
Troubleshooting* (Optional)

SIP Routing

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

load balancing

Data Routing (Optional)

DHCP server towards LAN
VLAN
Layer 3 routing
Internal layer 2 switching

Static and dynamic routing (RIP1, RIP2, OSPF, BGP)

Physical / Environmental

Enclosure 1U chassis

Dimensions 1U x 320mm x 345mm (HxWxD)
Weight Approx. 5.95lb (2.7kg) loaded with OSN
Mounting Desktop or 19” mount
Power 90-254 V AC power feeds

Operating Temperature 5-40C

Regulatory Compliance

Telecommunications TIA/EIA-IS-968, ETSI ES 203 021 (FXO interface)

Safety and EMC

*Roadmap

DHCP/PPPoE/L2TP/PPTP client towards WAN;

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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)