4500 configurations

The Net-Net 4500 platform supports the Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director (SD) configuration. The Net-Net 4500 SD tightly integrates signaling and media control on a single hardware platform and provides comprehensive support for SIP, H.323, SIP-H.323 interworking, MGCP and H.248 signaling and media sessions. Net-Net OS offers proven signaling interoperability with all major IP PBXs, unified communications (UC) servers, SIP servers, application servers, media servers, media gateways, SIP/H.323 trunking and hosted service, and numerous IP-based voice and video endpoints. The Net-Net 4500 SD provides the session border controls that enterprises require in five critical areas:

• Security—A Net-Net 4500 SD secures the SIP/H.323 trunking border to service provider IP networks for PSTN/IP termination and hosted services, and the Internet border to remote offices, teleworkers and mobile employees. In extremely security-conscious organizations, it even secures the enterprise data center with mission-critical IP PBX or UC server resources where it connects to the private VPN connecting other sites and “untrusted” employees.
• Service reach maximization—The SIP and H.323 interworking capabilities of a Net-Net 4500 SD ensure interoperability with-and-between IP trunking services, hosted IP services, IP PBX equipment and UC servers.
• SLA assurance—A Net-Net 4500 SD controls session admission, bandwidth utilization, IP PBX or UC server loads and overloads, IP network transport and SIP/H.323 session routing. Appropriately deployed, Net-Net SBCs provide a range of high-availability options ranging from disaster recovery for business-critical major sites to basic survivability for smaller sites.
• Regulatory compliance—Encryption for session privacy, call/session replication for recording and prioritized session control for E911 calls are supported by a Net-Net 4500 SD.
• Cost management—A Net-Net 4500 SD enables least cost routing and session/call accounting, and it enforces service authorization and polices bandwidth use.

For government defense and security–focused agencies, the Net-Net 4500 meets the stringent requirements needed to comply with standards such as the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). Acme Packet’s implementations of SIP-TLS, SRTP, IPsec, SSH and SFTP all comply with FIPS 140-2 without requiring special hardware. The Net-Net 3820 assures proper implementation of security functionality, counter common/known threats and are documented as sufficiently free from flaws, vulnerabilities and side effects. It also features configuration options to mitigate security vulnerabilities required for product approval by the U.S. Defense Information Services Agency (DISA).

Net-SAFE, Acme Packet’s security framework, is supported via the tight integration of the Net-Net 4500 hardware and Net-Net OS software. Net-SAFE features powerful denial-of-service/distributed denial-of-service protection at the layer 3, layer 4, IPsec and SIP signaling level; and it offers intrusion detection/prevention capabilities. Other security features support dynamic access control, topology hiding, privacy and confidentiality, service infrastructure DoS/DDoS protection, virus and SPIT protection, and fraud prevention.

Net-Net Central, our next-generation management platform, delivers highly-scalable configuration and fault, performance and security management for Acme Packet products and solutions. Its flexible high-availability architecture accommodates very large networks and provides extensibility for hosting advanced management application add-ons. Through its dashboard summary and multiple configuration views, Net-Net Central facilitates flow-through provisioning, capacity planning and comprehensive performance and fault-monitoring with “at-a-glance” status indicators that simplify real-time network-wide management. Through standard interfaces including SNMP, SFTP, XML and SOAP, Net-Net Central also integrates with OSS/BSS ecosystems to deliver advanced service fulfillment, service assurance, billing and mediation.