ASC functions and features

Rich communications abstraction layer

The ASC’s rich communications abstraction layer lets Web developers with no special IP communications background or training create advanced communications-enabled applications, helping IT organizations improve time-to-market and reduce development costs.

Integrated session control for signaling and media

The ASC’s built-in comprehensive SIP and H.323 signaling and RTP media control services minimize expense and complexity by eliminating the need for external proxies, gateways or media servers. The Net-Net ASC complements SBCs and other IP communications elements.

Advanced service orchestration

The ASC delivers interactive communications as a reusable service in an enterprise service-oriented architecture. The solution integrates enterprise communications and applications architectures and allows developers to efficiently support multiple business applications and communications vendors without porting or rewriting code.

Fully standards-based solution

The ASC supports standards-based IP communications protocols – SIP and H.323 – and Web services APIs – and is compatible with popular Java and .NET toolsets and frameworks. Developers can use familiar Web tools to add interactive IP communications to Web 2.0 applications.

Flexible session control and routing policies

The ASC provides per-user session control and routing policy capabilities and supports external policy stores (LDAP, Diameter) and routing policies (i.e., least cost routing) to protect and extend existing systems and practices. Extensive compliance logging The ASC provides network-wide compliance logging with full session accounting for all servers and services, and fully-customizable CDRs. Records can be logged to multiple external servers (RADIUS, SQL, etc.) for integration with existing compliance systems.

Carrier-class high availability (HA) operation

The ASC supports high availability configurations with full hitless and stateful failover for SIP signaling and media sessions to ensure the availability of mission-critical applications and services.

Comprehensive management

The ASC includes an embedded CLI and browser-based GUI for element configuration management and troubleshooting as well as SNMP interfaces to external third-party enterprise management systems for fault and performance management.