Cloud-Native Nokia Session Border Controller Sets Benchmark for Performance and Security in
Fixed, Cable and Mobile Networks
- Nokia's
field-proven Session Border Controller (SBC) software enables service
providers to deliver secure, high-quality voice and video services in
hybrid and virtualized network environments
- Enhanced
SBC robustly defends against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attacks and unauthorized access without impacting the customer
experience
Nokia
today announced its next-generation Session Border Controller software,
offering service providers dramatically higher levels of performance
and security for their cloud-native deployments.
Nokia SBC acts as
the gatekeeper at the edge of the network, preventing cyber-attacks,
IP-bandwidth overload and unauthorized access attempts launched against
communication interfaces from devices and other peer networks. The
version announced today provides enhanced capabilities to help customers
better manage and protect media and signaling streams within and across
their networks, ensuring high-quality, uninterrupted delivery of voice
and video.
New features and capabilities of the latest Nokia SBC software release include:
- Built-in Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring to alert the operator to quality issues
- Lawful interception enhancements to meet different regional regulatory requirements
- Cloud scaling automation with Nokia CloudBand Application Manager (CBAM)
- Support for Optimal Media Routing (OMR) and Session Recording Protocol (SIPREC)
Extensive testing by Miercom,
the leading independent organization specializing in networking and
communications product testing, revealed that Nokia's newest
cloud-native SBC delivers performance on par with hardware-based SBC
solutions, and far surpasses that of other comparable cloud-based
products the firm previously tested. Key findings from Miercom's testing
report revealed that Nokia's new SBC software:
- Delivered
carrier-grade performance for the most demanding signaling and media
plane use cases when implemented as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
- Provided complete mitigation of DDoS attacks without any degradation in voice or video call handling and quality
- Delivered
high-density transcoding, encryption, decryption and other
compute-intensive tasks, ensuring high-quality, private connections for
voice and VoIP calls
- Demonstrated
high resiliency in failover tests under a high call load (800 calls per
second with Transport Layer Security) with 100 percent successful
handover of established calls
- Supported the highest per-VNF capacity for software-based media and signaling compared to other pure-cloud SBC competitors
Rob Smithers, CEO of Miercom, said:
"Nokia's cloud-based SBC software demonstrated impressive levels of
performance, security and scalability in our testing, delivering high
signaling and media plane performance, powerful encryption/decryption
capabilities, strong DoS and DDoS protection, and more. It offers
service providers a safe, reliable and affordable way to migrate their
session border controllers to a cloud environment."
Bhaskar Gorti, president of Applications & Analytics at Nokia, said:
"All service providers deploying IP-based communications services need
session border control to protect the network at the boundaries. We're
the only vendor to offer a cloud-native SBC solution that is field
proven in large communication service provider networks with tens of
millions of subscribers. The validation by Miercom underscores our
ability to deliver world-class products that help customers ensure the
safety, reliability and performance of their IP networks."
Nokia SBC enables
communication service providers to cost-effectively control, secure and
manage access, peering, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), VoLTE and
over-the-top (OTT) applications within a single software package, and
helps deliver a high-quality voice and video experience for end users.
Designed for cloud deployments, Nokia's SBC software is fully
virtualized and supports OpenStack and VMware telco-cloud environments,
and is currently used by more than 90 service providers globally,
including 12 of the top 25 mobile network providers.
Source: Nokia media announcement