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SIP Infrastructure

The switch is most definitely on. Carrier infrastructures are making the migration to next generation architectures and open application environments at a breakneck pace. In these emerging networks sessions reign supreme and the SIP signaling protocol is taking its rightful place on the throne as the ruling control mechanism.  At the same time, web 2.0 application programming patterns and interfaces will achieve dominance as the services layer opens up to a broader independent software vendor community.

Over the coming years, wireline and wireless network operators will address three major challenges:  How to complete the migration from their circuit switched legacy while protecting their investment in their infrastructure and applications? How to elegantly manage the explosive growth in SIP messages that will result from its increased use in rich communications services?  And how to protect their network at the ingress, egress and core?

Metaswitch offers solutions that meet these challenges today yet offer scale for the future.  

  • SIP must interoperate with other protocols as networks and services migrate.  Our media gateways convert TDM signaling to SIP, while our service broker platforms deliver service continuity across disparate networks, allowing operators to mix and match services by seamlessly interworking different protocols across the many variants of “Intelligent Network.”
  • SIP’s strengthening foothold in NGN increases the number of endpoints, interconnects and sessions that must be efficiently managed and effectively maintained. This demands simplification of core SIP routing, untangling the mesh of static route table entries on the ever-growing number of endpoints which lack any discernable dynamic topology discovery mechanisms: demands that are met by the Metaswitch SIP Session Router.
  • SIP sessions must be secured and normalized, accessible and analyzed.  With VoIP taking off in wireline and wireless consumer networks, and new infrastructure-based services forever changing the relationship between signaling and media, a new class of SBC is required that can scale these functions individually in a distributed model or as an integrated appliance.  With this unique view of migratory and scaling challenges in NGN, only Metaswitch is delivering a second era of SBC that is ready for the new challenges of session control.
 

  • Service Migration

    Next Generation/IMS networks represent a new age in telecom networks that promises the delivery of robust multimedia services across diverse networks. Today, next generation/IMS networks have only the potential of being more feature rich than their legacy predecessors. The reality is that the "new" networks are behind the legacy network when comparing table stakes applications like least cost routing, VPN, and pre-paid. )))

  • Session Border Control

    Session Border Controllers reside either at the interconnect point between two network providers or at the access boundary between a managed carrier infrastructure and residential or enterprise customers.With critical but diverse functions that include security, traffic management and accessibility, these platforms are playing an increasingly vital role in the delivery of communications services: protecting your network services from nefarious attacks, managing packet throughput under all load conditions, and normalizing otherwise incompatible protocols. )))