The core data and voice networks within most global telecommunications service providers are now predominantly IP based. Wherever possible, carriers are adopting IP due to cost advantages, the extended service reach it provides and its proven resiliency. While IP based communications offer many significant benefits, at the interconnection point between peering partners, the use of IP comes with its own set of challenges.
The Sonus NBS is designed to sit at the border between carriers and provide an intelligent interconnection between partner networks. Critical to any peering environment, the NBS delivers the following functions:
- Securing the network border
- Enforcing Quality of Service policies
- Transcoding media and providing codec interworking, DTMF, fax interworking
- Traversing intermediate NAT and firewalls, and
- Ensuring regulatory compliance
Extending beyond the role of a traditional standalone Session Border Controller, the Sonus NBS combines security, media switching and transcoding services in a single, scalable device. The NBS is an evolutionary step beyond traditional border security, based on the best practives learned over more than a decade of IP security leadership. Today no other security solution empowers your network edge like the NBS - it truly is a peering solution without peer.
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