3820 configurations
The Net-Net 3820 supports two Acme Packet SBC configurations, the integrated Net-Net Session Director (SD) and decomposed Net-Net Signaling Firewall (SF). Net-Net 3820 SDThe Net-Net 3820 SD tightly integrates signaling and media control and provides comprehensive support for SIP, H.323, MGCP, H.248, RTSP and MSRP signaling and media sessions. The Net-Net 3820 SD provides the session border controls that fixed line service providers require in five critical areas—security, service reach maximization, SLA assurance, regulatory compliance, and cost and revenue management. The Net-Net 3820 SD supports Net-Net SMX. This configuration option adds IMS-equivalent I/S-CSCF functions to create an integrated, single system delivery solution. This solution reduces the cost of RCS, FMC and IMS-equivalent service delivery infrastructure to approximately $2-3 per subscriber for as few as 100,000 subscribers. While Net-Net SMX is ideal for initial service rollouts or small subscriber populations, it can also be scaled in several ways to support larger subscriber populations based upon service success. The Net-Net 3820 SD can also be a member of a Net-Net Cluster when used in conjunction with Acme Packet’s Net-Net 4500 Session-aware Load Balancer (SLB). Acme Packet Net-Net Clusters support up to two million subscribers without requiring architectural forklifts or network disruptions. Net-Net Clusters support all Net-Net SBC configurations. Net-Net 3820 SFThe Net-Net 3820 Signaling Firewall (SF) provides SIP signaling security, load balancing and other controls for the fixed line subscriber access border and the interconnect/peering border. It controls access via static and dynamic ACLs, hides topology and can protect itself and other elements of the SIP service delivery infrastructure from malicious denial-of-service (DoS/DDoS) attacks and non-malicious overloads. Read more about the capabilities and advantages of the Net-Net 3820 SBCs on our session border controller page.
The Net-Net 3820 Session Router (SR) is a session routing proxy that consolidates and simplifies the routing of SIP-based voice, video, instant messaging and multimedia sessions within-and-between fixed line, mobile and transit networks to help service providers reduce capital and operating expenditures while optimizing service revenue. In Acme Packet’s Open Session Routing Architecture (OSR), the Net-Net 3820 SRP works in conjunction with best-of breed routing database products and services from Acme Packet partners. These complementary product vendors and service providers offer centralized routing databases and database provisioning tools for dynamic route selection. The Net-Net queries these databases using industry-standard ENUM, SIP and DNS protocols. The Net-Net 3820 SRP’s local route tables can also be provisioned by our Net-Net Route Manager Central (RMC). The Net-Net 3820 SRP dynamically routes sessions between all types of borders, including access and interconnect, IP and TDM. More specifically, it routes sessions between stateful service control elements such as session border controllers, CLASS 5 softswitches, Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS), Mobile Switching Centers (MSC), IMS subscriber call control elements and softswitches controlling media gateways. Since the source and destination SIP signaling elements are session-stateful, an SRP can operate in a transaction-stateful mode, maximizing routing performance. The SRP can also operate in session-stateful mode when protocol normalization, accounting or other stateful functions are required. Read more about the capabilities and advantages of the Net-Net 3820 SR on our session routing proxy page.
Net-SAFE, Acme Packet’s security framework, is supported via the tight integration of the Net-Net 3820 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.
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