re: HR Unties Sonus/Marconi Tie-UpIntersting Angle.... However the Session Border Controller vendors would have you beleive that a softswitch-based architecture (such as Sonus) can never come close to replicating a stand-alone box for session border control.
How much of that is acurate versus self-preservation?
re: HR Unties Sonus/Marconi Tie-UpI've interviewed 25 SBC vendors for Heavy Reading over the last 4 weeks, and I detect a move towards distributed operation. Be sure to catch my Light Reading webinar on SBCs on December 2nd!
re: HR Unties Sonus/Marconi Tie-UpSo the selection of the Sonus MG is purely about economy in that it can become a border controller. Does this, as it seems, imply that BT sees MGs as very temporary (two or three years) elements of the network?
re: HR Unties Sonus/Marconi Tie-UpIn defining SBCs, I include border signalling proxies embedded in softswitches, so I asked as manuy softswitch vendors as possible if they were including this functionality. The answers were mixed. But there are a surprising number of Session Bordr Controller vendors per se out there. I also included those whose products were purely for the enterprise. To get some idea, just do a google search on "session border controller"!
re: HR Unties Sonus/Marconi Tie-UpSo the selection of the Sonus MG is purely about economy in that it can become a border controller. Does this, as it seems, imply that BT sees MGs as very temporary (two or three years) elements of the network?
> I would guess that is the perception. BT usually like to buy equipment with a 15 year lifecycle. I would also guess that they will go for a distributed model, where the softswitch handles all of the signalling proxy/B2BUA, and the SONUS is the media proxy.
However the Session Border Controller vendors would have you beleive that a softswitch-based architecture (such as Sonus) can never come close to replicating a stand-alone box for session border control.
How much of that is acurate versus self-preservation?