Session Border Controllers from Stratus Telecom Focus on Admission Control and Security

Moving toward an all IP environment, organizations can easily encounter technical issues, such as connectivity, admission control, security and regulatory compliance. To help overcome these challenges, session border controllers are often used. One provider in this space is Stratus Telecommunications (News - Alert), which provides the ENTICE session controller (E-SC). The E-SC solution is designed to be easy to use and evolve with the network.

Session border controller is admission control

One important feature for a session border controller is admission control. This element of the E-SC helps to guarantee quality and service for real-time interactive communication across bottlenecks in IP access networks. It will also drive performance when any two IP networks are being connected together.

Session admission control within the E-SC is integrated with the layer-5 signal processing to ensure real-time communication works over all network topologies. With this feature, the E-SC can accept or reject real-time sessions before they reach the point of overloading the network. Within this solution, admission control helps the session border controller to set policies; control admission; manage priorities; and track activity.

The importance of admission control

Session border controllers from Stratus Telecom focus on the importance of admission control and security. The E-SC solution is designed to easily integrate with other ENTICE components in order to deliver cost-effective high growth and high profitability solutions such as VoIP and hosted IP Centrex. ENTICE session border controllers are designed to be flexible, modular, highly customizable and programmable so that powerful solutions can be delivered to the end customer.