SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe)

Industry-Leading, Secure, Scalable Virtual SBC

Overview

As services such as Unified Communications, Conferencing & Collaboration, and Contact Centers, continue their migration to cloud environments, it is critical that SBCs make that same transition so enterprises can be assured of the continuity of secure, reliable services.

Ribbon’s SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe), offers identical feature software to its award-winning SBC 5400 and SBC 7000 appliances – only without an appliance. This means enterprises have the flexibility to deploy in their SBCs multiple environments - their own data center, on their own private cloud, or utilize a public cloud.

With SBC SWe, enterprises can be assured they can use secure real-time communications without compromising scale and performance. Enterprises further save by only allocating virtual/cloud resources on demand.

The SBC SWe provides robust interworking for multiple signaling protocols, call admission control to manage traffic levels, multiple security features to protect privacy and ensure regulatory compliance, media (RTP) packet processing, and audio transcoding.

Benefits of Deploying on a Public Cloud

Enterprises are already deploying SBCs in their own private clouds and that makes sense based on specific requirements for ownership control and oftten specific privacy concerns. However, over the past 18 months the three major hyperscalers (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure) have all brought out offers that are aimed at enterprises deploying communication services on a public cloud.

By moving from a private to public cloud an enterprise has a lot to gain. They can achieve much faster time-to-market than having to procure, install, and implement the required compute, networking, and storage infrastructure on their own private cloud. They can reduce operating costs by eliminating the need for ongoing maintenance of the cloud infrastructure for an SBC because the public cloud provider handles this now. And they will gain flexibility and cost control when scaling SBC capacity, because public cloud resources are available on a subscription basis.