· Sonus’ cloud architecture allows customers to seamlessly migrate from hardware to software, utilising the same operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS).
· Sonus’ cloud-optimised session border controller delivers predictive scaling on-demand, accelerating service delivery while maximising operational efficiency.
Sonus Networks, a global cloud communications provider, has enhanced its Session Border Controller Software edition (SBCS) to help service providers accelerate real-time communications in public and private clouds without compromising performance or scale.
The latest SBCS release leverages auto registration and auto
configuration capabilities to instantiate
a run time-ready virtual SBC, speeding up service delivery. No proprietary hardware or physical digital signaling processor
resources are required to support any of the SBCS’ features, including
high availability, encryption, security, transcoding and routing.
With this release, Sonus delivers network-wide licensing where a pool of
session licenses can be shared across all SBC virtual network function (VNF) instances, enabling
new service pricing models. This release also includes new load balancing mechanisms to manage resource utilisation across multiple SBCs.
“If you look at the increase of real-time service congestion and the pervasive migration of networks to the cloud, it is clear that our industry is changing,” said Kevin Riley, Sonus SVP and CTO. “Sonus’ strategy capitalises on our heritage of enabling secure, reliable and scalable real-time communications, beginning with the transition from time division multiplexing (TDM) to Internet protocol (IP) and now into the cloud. Sonus has led several important network transformations and we are ideally positioned to lead our customers to the cloud with SBC technologies that are optimised for cloud deployments. Sonus’ SBCs allow service providers to move to hybrid and pure software architectures with minimal friction and ultimately deliver services faster and win more customers.”
“As more operators move to a network functions virtualisation (NFV) architecture, the ability to ease migration, accelerate service delivery and scale services up and down quickly are key drivers,” said Diane Myers, Senior Research director at IHS. “By delivering a software-only, open architecture SBC that delivers auto configuration, load balancing and scales on demand, Sonus is addressing requirements for migrating to a secure NFV environment.”
“NFV offers service providers and their customers the opportunity to easily deliver new services, reduce costs, and improve flexibility, especially as enterprises migrate to full-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures,” said Irwin Lazar, VP and Service Director, Nemertes Research. “Sonus’ SBCS enhancements allows service providers to provision functions like network performance management and optimization, session border control, and session interworking into virtual infrastructure, manageable via existing NFV OSS frameworks.”
According to Nemertes Research:
o Eight in 10 (83%) companies already use cloud-based collaboration services, with nearly 40% adopting IP telephony in the cloud.
o Anticipated cost savings, agility, and more ready access to emerging features are the primary drivers of cloud spending.
o Nearly nine in 10 (88%) companies are increasing spend this year on cloud services. Those increasing spend are doing so by a rate of 97%.
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