9200 configurations

The Net-Net 9200 operates Net-Net OS to support integrated or decomposed SBC deployment models. As an integrated SBC, the Net-Net 9200 tightly integrates signaling and media control within the platform and provides comprehensive support for SIP, H.323 and SIP-H.323 interworking. Net-Net OS offers proven signaling interoperability with all major softswitches, IMS CSCF elements, SIP servers, H.323 gatekeepers, call agents, application servers, media servers, media gateways, IP PBXs and numerous IP-based voice and video endpoints. As a decomposed SBC, the Net-Net 9200 operates as a SIP signaling firewall, protecting itself, as well as the service provider or enterprise communications service and application delivery infrastructure, from malicious or non-malicious signaling overloads and attacks.

For high-capacity centralized transcoding applications, the Net-Net 9200 supports a dedicated transcoding gateway configuration that offloads expensive, processor-intensive transcoding and transrating functions from other network elements such as media gateways or distributed SBCs. Net-Net 9200 transcoding hardware features full redundancy and supports a wide variety of wireline and wireless codecs with highly-efficient DSP resource utilization that scales modularly to meet access or interconnect requirements. Highly flexible transcoding/transrating policies and codec management provide optimal media control within service provider and large enterprise and contact center environments. The Net-Net 9200 also supports non-dedicated distributed transcoding when configured as an integrated SBC.

Specific SBC configuration options for the Net-Net 9200 include:

• Net-Net Session Director (SD) – Integrated SBC with multi-protocol signaling and media control
• Net-Net Signaling Firewall (SF) – Decomposed SBC with SIP signaling security and other control functions
• Net-Net Transcoding Gateway (TG) – Highly-scalable dedicated transcoding configuration for SIP-signaled media

As an access SBC in next-generation network (NGN) architectures such as IMS, TISPAN, MSF and PacketCable 2.0, the Net-Net 9200 functions as a P-CSCF, E-CSCF, and IMS-AGW to complement other NGN access or core functions offered by 3rd parties or Acme Packet partners in their products. At NGN interconnect borders, the Net-Net 9200 supports the IWF, I-BCF and TrGW functions.

Net-Net 9200 SBCs can also be configured to operate as members of a Net-Net SBC cluster when used in conjunction with Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session-aware Load Balancer (SLB). Net-Net SBC clusters can be based on any Net-Net SBC configuration to support up to 2 million subscribers without requiring architectural forklifts or network disruptions.

Read more about the capabilities and advantages of the Net-Net 9200 SBCs on our session border controller page.

The Net-Net 9200 Session Router (SR) is a high-performance session routing proxy (SRP) for efficient routing of SIP-based interactive communication sessions—voice, video, instant messaging and multimedia—within and between networks. The Net-Net SR plays a central role in Acme Packet’s Open Session Routing Architecture (OSR) which is designed to simplify and consolidate core and inter-network session routing and reduce capital and operational expenditures.

In Acme Packet’s Open Session Routing architecture, the Net-Net SR consolidates routing control, reducing costs. The Net-Net SR 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. Acme Packet’s Net-Net SR queries these databases using industry-standard ENUM, SIP and DNS protocols.

The Net-Net SR’s local route tables may be provisioned by Acme Packet’s Net-Net Route Manager Central (RMC).

Using these databases, the Net-Net SR dynamically routes sessions between all types of network borders – access and interconnect, IP and TDM. More specifically, the Net-Net SR routes sessions between stateful service control elements such as Acme Packet SBCs, wireless Mobile Switching Centers (MSC), IMS subscriber call control elements, CLASS 5 softswitches, Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS) and softswitches controlling media gateways. Since the source and destination SIP signaling elements are session-stateful, the Net-Net SR can operate in a stateless or transaction-stateful mode, maximizing its performance.

Read more about the capabilities and advantages of the Net-Net 9200 SR on our session routing proxy page.

Net-SAFE, Acme Packet’s security framework, is supported via the tight integration of the Net-Net 9200 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.