IP communications systems are becoming an ever-more critical part of business and consumer communications. As a result, they are increasingly becoming the target for fraudsters, trolls and hackers, requiring a comprehensive security solution. These are the reasons behind the birth of the Session Border Controller. But there is much more to SBCs than security.
In this presentation, we get "back to basics" and show the threats and underlying role that an SBC plays in modern IP communications solutions. During this session, you'll learn about B2BUA, NAT, DOS/DDOS attacks, registration floods, topology hiding and more...
Since the dawn of the telephone operator switchboard, call routing has challenged network designers and managers with complex routing algorithms. While the technology has changed, the need remains the same.
Routing SIP traffic is one of the key functions of a Session Border Controller, directing traffic and working around network outages.
Continuing on the "How To" series of installation and provisioning sessions, this 30-minute educational webinar offers an opportunity to learn the fundamental and advanced SIP routing functions found in FreeSBC.
Topics covered in this session:
SIP Routing Architectures and Challenges
Basic SIP Routing Configuration
Dealing with Outages
Advanced SIP Routing Tables
Real-world Use Cases
Your Questions
Who would find most valuable:
Network architects at service providers and enterprises, networking consultants, analysts and decision-makers involved in acquiring network technology
Over the past 10 years the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has moved from the toy of researchers and academics to the de-facto standard for telephony and multimedia services in mobile and fixed networks.
Probably one of the most emotionally fraught discussions in the context of SIP was whether Session Border Controllers (SBC) are good or evil.
SIP was designed with the vision of revolutionizing the way communication services are developed, deployed and operated. Following the end-to-end spirit of the Internet SIP was supposed to turn down the walled gardens of PSTN networks and free communication services from the grip of large telecom operators. By moving the intelligence to the end systems, developers were supposed to be able to develop new communication services that will innovate the way we communicate with each other.
This was to be achieved without having to wait for the approval of the various telecommunication standardization groups such as ETSI or the support of incumbent telecoms.
Session border controllers are usually implemented as SIP Back-to-Back User Agents (B2BUA) that are placed between a SIP user agent and a SIP proxy. The SBC then acts as the contact point for both the user agents and the proxy. Thereby the SBC actually breaks the end-to-end behavior of SIP, which has led various people to deem the SBC as an evil incarnation of the old telecom way of thinking. Regardless of this opposition, SBCs have become a central part of any SIP deployment.
In this paper we will first give a brief overview of how SIP works and continue with a description of what SBCs do and the different use cases for deploying SBCs.
If you don't know what SIP is, what it is used for or why you should even care then this is the section for you. This presentation will go over the very basics of SIP and assumes no previous knowledge of SIP or really any other network experience either. Topics it will touch upon is:
- What SIP is all about
- SIP and sessions management
- Basic call flow
- Brief discussion of SIP messages
- SIP and audio
Over the last 12 months we’ve shared a lot of information about session border controllers, applications for SBCs, customer use cases, along with details on FreeSBC installation and configuration. During that time, also been asked dozens of questions and done our best to answer every single one of them live during the event or in writing on the TelcoBridges forum. With this milestone, we thought it was time to look back at the most popular and frequent questions. So join us as we review our “Top 10” FAQ.
A recording of the webinar can be found at: https://www2.telcobridges.com/FreeSBCVideoLibrary
Learn more at: www.freesbc.com
Since the dawn of the telephone operator switchboard, call routing has challenged network designers and managers with complex routing algorithms. While the technology has changed, the need remains the same.
Routing SIP traffic is one of the key functions of a Session Border Controller, directing traffic and working around network outages.
Continuing on the "How To" series of installation and provisioning sessions, this 30-minute educational webinar offers an opportunity to learn the fundamental and advanced SIP routing functions found in FreeSBC.
Topics covered in this session:
SIP Routing Architectures and Challenges
Basic SIP Routing Configuration
Dealing with Outages
Advanced SIP Routing Tables
Real-world Use Cases
Your Questions
Who would find most valuable:
Network architects at service providers and enterprises, networking consultants, analysts and decision-makers involved in acquiring network technology
Over the past 10 years the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has moved from the toy of researchers and academics to the de-facto standard for telephony and multimedia services in mobile and fixed networks.
Probably one of the most emotionally fraught discussions in the context of SIP was whether Session Border Controllers (SBC) are good or evil.
SIP was designed with the vision of revolutionizing the way communication services are developed, deployed and operated. Following the end-to-end spirit of the Internet SIP was supposed to turn down the walled gardens of PSTN networks and free communication services from the grip of large telecom operators. By moving the intelligence to the end systems, developers were supposed to be able to develop new communication services that will innovate the way we communicate with each other.
This was to be achieved without having to wait for the approval of the various telecommunication standardization groups such as ETSI or the support of incumbent telecoms.
Session border controllers are usually implemented as SIP Back-to-Back User Agents (B2BUA) that are placed between a SIP user agent and a SIP proxy. The SBC then acts as the contact point for both the user agents and the proxy. Thereby the SBC actually breaks the end-to-end behavior of SIP, which has led various people to deem the SBC as an evil incarnation of the old telecom way of thinking. Regardless of this opposition, SBCs have become a central part of any SIP deployment.
In this paper we will first give a brief overview of how SIP works and continue with a description of what SBCs do and the different use cases for deploying SBCs.
If you don't know what SIP is, what it is used for or why you should even care then this is the section for you. This presentation will go over the very basics of SIP and assumes no previous knowledge of SIP or really any other network experience either. Topics it will touch upon is:
- What SIP is all about
- SIP and sessions management
- Basic call flow
- Brief discussion of SIP messages
- SIP and audio
Over the last 12 months we’ve shared a lot of information about session border controllers, applications for SBCs, customer use cases, along with details on FreeSBC installation and configuration. During that time, also been asked dozens of questions and done our best to answer every single one of them live during the event or in writing on the TelcoBridges forum. With this milestone, we thought it was time to look back at the most popular and frequent questions. So join us as we review our “Top 10” FAQ.
A recording of the webinar can be found at: https://www2.telcobridges.com/FreeSBCVideoLibrary
Learn more at: www.freesbc.com
Firewalls, SIP Servers and SBC - What's the Differences?Alan Percy
There are a lot of building blocks that make up a reliable and secure voice network. Firewalls, SIP Servers and Session Border Controllers each play an important, but different, role in facilitating a secure and reliable network. Join us as we take a closer look at each in a modern voice network, answering the questions:
-What are they?
-Why do I need them?
-What do they do?
-What do they not do?
-Your questions
Each of the series will be recorded and library of recordings made available to registrants.
Who should view:
Network architects at service providers and enterprises, networking consultants, analysts and decision-makers involved in acquiring network technology
Download your FreeSBC software: www.freesbc.com
Frequently Asked Questions at: forums.freesbc.com
Other educational webinars at: freesbc.com/video-library
Third revision of IMS signaling course. The lecture was part of the communication protocols class 2014 delivered to students from FIIT STU Bratislava, Slovakia and University Zilina, Slovakia.
Brief introduction into SIP protocol, how it works, common problems to solve. Tech. details about handshake, SIP Trunks and SIP trunking. Market research.
The presentation is a compiled assembly from the SIP RFC' s, and original works of Alan Johnston and Henry Sinnreich . It contains Sip Detailed , Call flows , Architecture descriptions , SIP services , sip security , sip programming.
Internet protocol (VoIP) is the technology of digitizing sound, compressing it, breaking it up into data packets, and sending it over an IP network.The conventional technique used for sending voice is PSTN (public switched telephone network) . As data traffic has higher speed than telephone traffic, so what we do most of the time we prefer to send voice over data networks. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is a method of telephone communication over a data network.
VoLTE Basic callflows in IMS network v2 - includes Registration, Basic VoLTE Call, SDP, Interconnect, Roaming, highlights important SIP headers for session routing and user identities.
ims registration call flow procedure volte sipVikas Shokeen
This PDF , VoLTE IMS Registration tutorial covers IMS Registration sip procedure in depth & Provides extract of 3GPP / GSMA Specs , I am covering below call flow in Depth :-
- LTE Attach & Default Internet EPS bearer
- Role of QCI-1 ( Voice ) , QCI-5 (SIP Signaling) , QCI-6 to 9 (Internet)
- Default Vs Dedicated Bearer in LTE
- Default IMS EPS bearer in LTE
- SIP and IMS Registration
- TAS Registration
Over the last 12 months we’ve shared a lot of information about session border controllers, applications for SBCs, customer use cases, along with details on FreeSBC installation and configuration. During that time, also been asked dozens of questions and done our best to answer every single one of them live during the event or in writing on the TelcoBridges forum. With this milestone, we thought it was time to look back at the most popular and frequent questions. So join us as we review our “Top 10” FAQ.
A recording of the webinar can be found at: https://www2.telcobridges.com/FreeSBCVideoLibrary
Learn more at: www.freesbc.com
Firewalls, SIP Servers and SBC - What's the Differences?Alan Percy
There are a lot of building blocks that make up a reliable and secure voice network. Firewalls, SIP Servers and Session Border Controllers each play an important, but different, role in facilitating a secure and reliable network. Join us as we take a closer look at each in a modern voice network, answering the questions:
-What are they?
-Why do I need them?
-What do they do?
-What do they not do?
-Your questions
Each of the series will be recorded and library of recordings made available to registrants.
Who should view:
Network architects at service providers and enterprises, networking consultants, analysts and decision-makers involved in acquiring network technology
Download your FreeSBC software: www.freesbc.com
Frequently Asked Questions at: forums.freesbc.com
Other educational webinars at: freesbc.com/video-library
Third revision of IMS signaling course. The lecture was part of the communication protocols class 2014 delivered to students from FIIT STU Bratislava, Slovakia and University Zilina, Slovakia.
Brief introduction into SIP protocol, how it works, common problems to solve. Tech. details about handshake, SIP Trunks and SIP trunking. Market research.
The presentation is a compiled assembly from the SIP RFC' s, and original works of Alan Johnston and Henry Sinnreich . It contains Sip Detailed , Call flows , Architecture descriptions , SIP services , sip security , sip programming.
Internet protocol (VoIP) is the technology of digitizing sound, compressing it, breaking it up into data packets, and sending it over an IP network.The conventional technique used for sending voice is PSTN (public switched telephone network) . As data traffic has higher speed than telephone traffic, so what we do most of the time we prefer to send voice over data networks. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is a method of telephone communication over a data network.
VoLTE Basic callflows in IMS network v2 - includes Registration, Basic VoLTE Call, SDP, Interconnect, Roaming, highlights important SIP headers for session routing and user identities.
ims registration call flow procedure volte sipVikas Shokeen
This PDF , VoLTE IMS Registration tutorial covers IMS Registration sip procedure in depth & Provides extract of 3GPP / GSMA Specs , I am covering below call flow in Depth :-
- LTE Attach & Default Internet EPS bearer
- Role of QCI-1 ( Voice ) , QCI-5 (SIP Signaling) , QCI-6 to 9 (Internet)
- Default Vs Dedicated Bearer in LTE
- Default IMS EPS bearer in LTE
- SIP and IMS Registration
- TAS Registration
Over the last 12 months we’ve shared a lot of information about session border controllers, applications for SBCs, customer use cases, along with details on FreeSBC installation and configuration. During that time, also been asked dozens of questions and done our best to answer every single one of them live during the event or in writing on the TelcoBridges forum. With this milestone, we thought it was time to look back at the most popular and frequent questions. So join us as we review our “Top 10” FAQ.
A recording of the webinar can be found at: https://www2.telcobridges.com/FreeSBCVideoLibrary
Learn more at: www.freesbc.com
Firewalls, SIP Servers and SBC - What's the Differences?TelcoBridges Inc.
There are a lot of building blocks that make up a reliable and secure voice network. Firewalls, SIP Servers and Session Border Controllers each play an important, but different, role in facilitating a secure and reliable network. Join us as we take a closer look at each in a modern voice network, answering the questions:
-What are they?
-Why do I need them?
-What do they do?
-What do they not do?
-Your questions
Each of the series will be recorded and library of recordings made available to registrants.
Who should view:
Network architects at service providers and enterprises, networking consultants, analysts and decision-makers involved in acquiring network technology
Download your FreeSBC software: www.freesbc.com
Frequently Asked Questions at: forums.freesbc.com
Other educational webinars at: freesbc.com/video-library
A webinar introduction to FreeSBC, explaining the unique business model, product features, use cases and a customer case study. A great overview to help prospective users get oriented.
A webinar introduction to FreeSBC, explaining the unique business model, product features, use cases and a customer case study. A great overview to help prospective users get oriented.
Avaya Aura® Session Border Controller, powered by Acme Packet, secures the IP border for the real time interactive communications that flow outside your internal network. With Avaya Aura® Session Border Controller, your Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions can securely leverage SIP, while simultaneously extending the power of the Avaya Aura® architecture throughout your enterprise to realize the true benefits of open standards.
Slides from the June 4th, 2019 webinar, introducing ProSBC.
In October 2017, TelcoBridges took the bold step to offer FreeSBC, a software-based session border controller product, to the market. Since then, over 10 million sessions of FreeSBC software have been downloaded by thousands of users around the globe. Many of those sessions are now in production or various stages of evaluation. During that time, we at TelcoBridges have been listening carefully to customer feedback and working diligently on a product development roadmap to implement those suggestions. The result is ProSBC, an enhanced session border controller offering that fits many more use cases in both service provider and enterprise applications. Today - We’re pleased to share with you an overview of ProSBC, explain its features, capabilities, target markets and use cases.
Slides from the June 4th, 2019 webinar, introducing ProSBC.
In October 2017, TelcoBridges took the bold step to offer FreeSBC, a software-based session border controller product, to the market. Since then, over 10 million sessions of FreeSBC software have been downloaded by thousands of users around the globe. Many of those sessions are now in production or various stages of evaluation. During that time, we at TelcoBridges have been listening carefully to customer feedback and working diligently on a product development roadmap to implement those suggestions. The result is ProSBC, an enhanced session border controller offering that fits many more use cases in both service provider and enterprise applications. Today - We’re pleased to share with you an overview of ProSBC, explain its features, capabilities, target markets and use cases.
While an increasing number of operators have already replaced their SS7 based telecommunication core network with a SIP based solution, the interconnection to neighboring partners is still often realized over an SS7 peering point. This means that a call that is carried over a VoIP network is translated to an SS7 call and then possibly back to VoIP again. The translation requires specialized components and resources, which increases the network operation costs and introduces unnecessary processing delay. To avoid these costs and delays operators have started introducing SIP based interconnection and peering points.
The ABC SBC enables operators to establish secure borders to their neighbors by offering topology hiding, denial of service protection and mediation in a scalable manner
One of the most widely observed fraud scenarios is the case of a malicious user detecting the address of a PSTN gateway and accessing that gateway directly. Once the attacker has managed to access the gateway the attacker can start selling telephony minutes through that
gateway.
The ABC SBC establishes a secure border between the VoIP service provider’s core VoIP components–e.g., PSTN gateway, SIP proxy and application servers- and the subscribers. As the border element, the ABC SBC hides the details of the operator’s network from subscribers
and absorbs any attacks and sudden spikes in the subscriber traffic. Further, the mediation features of the ABC SBC shield the operator’s network from malfunctioning user agents and any interoperability issues.
Poor voice quality is one of the leading complaints for VoIP systems. Dropouts, echoes, static, and latency can ruin a conversation. Knowing how to measure voice quality and isolate the cause is an important part of delivering a quality experience to users and customers.
In this presentation, we share some background on voice quality in VoIP systems, examine the various causes of poor voice quality, and consider the role that SBCs can play in monitoring and isolating voice quality issues.
Questions covered in this session:
> Why is voice quality important to the customer experience?
> How is voice quality measured?
> What causes poor voice quality?
> How is voice quality measured on-the-fly?
> What is the role of SBCs in measuring voice quality?
> How do you isolate voice quality issues?
> Your questions
Who should attend:
Network architects at service providers and enterprises, networking consultants, analysts and decision-makers involved in acquiring network technology
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To help our customers make the transition, TelcoBridges has invited ZT Technology Solutions to join us as our newest Alliance Partner, bringing a host of experience in planning service provider migrations from TDM to IP.
During this event, we discuss our Network Transformation strategy, get to meet the team from ZT Technology Solutions and hear their FIVE best network transformation practices. Best of all, we have saved some time to answer your questions.
A recording is available at: https://youtu.be/WQjpTPNS4qM
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Video of presentation at: https://youtu.be/O5Hdw-c9rwg
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Recording at: https://youtu.be/RRvAAjNXdEg
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Stay with us as Gerry Christensen, VP of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at YouMail joins us to share an AI-powered robocall analytics platform that can be used by service providers and enterprises to block much of the unwanted traffic.
Video recording of the session is available at:
https://www2.telcobridges.com/videolibrary
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In this session, we talk with Jon Arnold, the principal at J Arnold & Associates, and a leading analyst covering the contact center market.
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Links:
Full video: https://youtu.be/9BpuYSY4mR4
YouMail consumer call screening product: www.youmail.com
ProSBC Pricing and product information: www.prosbc.com
Implementation notes on TBwiki: https://docs.telcobridges.com/tbwiki/ProSBC:Youmail
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A recording of the live webinar is available at:
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What is an SBC? A look at the role of the Session Border Controller
1. What is an SBC?
A look at the role of the
Session Border Controller
Alan D. Percy
alan.percy@telcobridges.com
November 2018
1
2. 2
What are the Risks?
• Extortion
• DOS / DDOS Attacks
• Registration Floods
• Malformed SIP Headers
• Call Floods
• Intrusion
• Network Scanning
• Account Hacking
• Theft of Services
3. 3
Agenda
Session Border Controllers
• What are they?
• How do they work?
• How are they used?
• Where to get free
SBC software?
• Where to learn more?
5. 5
SIP Server = SBC?
Answer: No – SIP Servers don’t have a B2BUA and have
no media handling security
6. 6
Other Needs?
• SIP-aware Security
• Resolve SIP incompatibility
issues
• Convert media formats
• Facilitate call recording
• Measure voice/video quality
• Call Routing
• Billing By Korolev Alexandr
RFC 3261
7. What is a SBC?
Local Area
Network
Network
Border
Wide Area
Network SBC
• Anywhere two SIP networks intersect
• Software-based “Network Function”
• Most often between a WAN and a LAN
SIP SIP
19. 19
Use Cases – Redundancy
Tasks:
Failure Detection
Traffic Redirection and Routing
Performance Measurement
Service Provider
SBC
SBC
Wholesale
Provider(s)
20. 20
Use Cases – CPaaS Providers
Tasks:
SIP Trunking Interoperability
FQDN Mapping
Intelligent Call Routing
Media By-pass
Cloud Hosted
Cloud-based Communications Provider as a Service (CPaaS)
SIP Trunking
Provider(s)
CPaaS
SBC
21. Emergence of the E-SBC
Service Provider SBC
• Protect service provider’s network
• High density / Large capacity
• Billing Interfaces
• NAT Traversal
• SIP Trunking and Access
• Central Office / Cloud Deployment
• 1+1 Redundancy
• Legal Intercept (CALEA)
• Wireline and Wireless SPs
• Sold through Systems Integrators
Enterprise SBC
21
• Protect enterprise’s network
• Low to medium density
• Quality of Service measurement
• Intrusion Protection
• UC or IP-PBX Interoperabililty
• Customer Premises (CPE)
• Lower cost
• SIPREC for Call Recording
• Mid-market and Enterprises
• Sold through Resellers/Channels
22. 22
Use Cases – E-SBC
Tasks:
Security
SIP Trunking Interoperability
ANI/Caller-ID Substitution
Cause Code Mapping
IP-PBX / UC / Contact Center with SIP Trunking
SIP Trunking
Provider(s)
UC or
Contact Center
SBC
23. 23
Use Cases – E-SBC
Tasks:
Security
SIP Trunking Interoperability
Registration Forwarding
IP-PBX / UC / Contact Center with SIP Trunking and Remote Users
SIP Trunking
Provider(s)
UC or
Contact Center
SBC
Work-at-home users
SBC
25. 25
SBCs “Back in the Day”
• SBCs were based on specialized
“purpose-built” hardware platforms
• Packet processing H/W
• DSP Modules
• DC Power
• High Availability in hardware
26. Changing Economics
“Old Way”
Hardware-centric
Proprietary appliances
EOL Hardware
Capital Expenditure + Maintenance
“Cloud Way”
26
Software-centric
COTS Hardware, Virtual or Cloud
Software-as-a-Service
“Pay-as-you-Grow”
TCO
Years
TCO
Years
27. 27
SBCs as Software
“Service providers have been deploying session
border controllers (SBCs) predominantly as
standalone devices, but by 2019 they will
increasingly implement SBCs as software in
virtualized environments and on commercial
servers…”, Diane Myers, IHS Markit
Source: IHS Markit’s IMS and SBC Strategies and Vendor
Leadership Service Provider Survey, September 2019
28. 28
SBC Deployment Models – COTS
• Highest performance and scale
• Most predictable performance
• Scales down to small CPE appliances
• Required dedicated hardware
30. 30
SBC Deployment Models - VNF
• Deployed as a Virtualized
Network Function (VNF)
• Core of a Service Provider
or
Edge of a SP network on
uCPE
• Managed by Orchestration
S/W
SBC
31. 31
SBC Deployment Models - Cloud
• “Pay as you Grow”
• Variety of platform choices
and operating systems
• Flexible scaling
Welcome to “FreeSBC – A New Approach to the SBC”, a webinar event hosted by TelcoBridges
Before we begin, a little housekeeping: As a live event participant, you’ll have the opportunity to interact with today’s speakers and hope you do pose your questions and comments on today’s topic using the Q/A panel. To pose a question or comment, open the Q/A panel by clicking on the box in the upper left of your screen. We’ll cover your questions toward the end of the session.
We’ve found that some attendees may need to adjust the webinar View Options to see the full slide on your screen. If you are not seeing a full slide, move your mouse to the top of the webinar window and a View Option selection will appear – choose an option that best fits your screen.
Also, today’s event is being recorded and all those that have registered will received a link to the recording for on-demand playback. We hope you share the link with your co-workers and others that would find the discussion valuable.
First a little background:
As network architects in service providers and large enterprises plan their migration to cloud infrastructure, one network security element plays a critical role and needs special treatment - the Session Border Controller. At the crossroads of real-time voice and video traffic, SBCs are tasked with providing protection against DDOS attacks, facilitating NAT traversal, providing topology hiding, resolving interoperability issues and much more.
The traditional way of paying for network infrastructure assumed a hardware-centric appliance needed to be purchased, requiring a large capital expenditure followed by maintenance fees over the life of the equipment. The result was a front-loading of the TCO, a real problem for providers that are just starting out and are building a customer base. [BUILD]
The new “Cloud Way” is a more software-centric model where initial costs are low, and increase later when a paid subscriber base is established by the provider. This model offers more opportunities for fostering new services and applications – ideally, growing new business opportunities.
Recognizing these needs, TelcoBridges offers FreeSBC, a software SBC solution designed specifically for cloud and virtualized deployments. Highly scalable with carrier-grade reliability, FreeSBC is a commercial SBC, offered under a “freemium” business model. We feel FreeSBC better fits the emerging cloud application market needs for affordable voice network security.
