User Guide

Vast mediation capabilities and proven interoperability
In a world of growing choices of voice coders and SIP avors, enterprises
and services providers alike must ensure interoperability for successful
integration and service delivery. The Mediant 800 E-SBC, with its
extensive media processing capabilities, supports a wide range of voice
coders as well as SIP normalization, fax handling, gain control and
numerous additional media processing features.
As a direct evolution of the eld-proven and highly interoperable
Mediant family of VoIP media gateways, the Mediant 800 E-SBC provides
unparalleled interoperability, enabling mediation between an extensive
list of IP and TDM-based PBXs and SIP Trunking providers.
Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
AudioCodes Mediant 800 E-SBC supports enhanced IP Quality of
Service (QoS) enforcement and Quality of Experience (QoE)
Monitoring. Leveraging the BroadSoft PacketSmart embedded agent
(a SaaS-based lifecycle management solution), the Mediant 800
E-SBC enables service providers and multi-site enterprises to assess
networks, certify VoIP deployments, and measure, monitor, track, and help
optimize the QoE of their VoIP services. The PacketSmart solution is
either offered as a public cloud service or within the customer’s data
center in a private cloud deployment. AudioCodes’ Mediant 800
E-SBC also supports enhanced IP Quality of Service (QoS), including
thernet frame tagging (802.1p), IP packet marking (Diffserv), and trafc
shaping.
Survivability Services
Customers served by a centralized, SIP-based IP Centrex server
(or branch ofces in distributed enterprises) may face service
discontinuities in case of WAN failure. The integrated SAS (Stand- Alone
Survivability) feature of the Mediant 800 E-SBC enables internal ofce
communication between SIP clients (e.g., IP Phones), along with PSTN
fallback, in case of disconnection from the centralized IP Centrex server
or IP-PBX.
Value-Added Services by an Open Platform for 3rd-Party
Applications
AudioCodes’ Mediant 800 E-SBC extends the exibility of a standalone
SBC with the built-in Open Solution Network (OSN) server option (based
on an Intel processor). Independent Software Vendors and OEM
customers can utilize this integrated, general purpose server to host
their own applications (e.g., IP-PBX, IVR, Call Center, Conferencing, and
more).
Applications
Sip Trunking Solution
Using the Mediant 800 E-SBC, SMB customers can seamlessly migrate
from legacy PSTN connectivity to cost-effective SIP Trunking Services.
The Mediant 800-ESBC provides security, session mediation and service
level assurance services, connecting the SMB to multiple SIP Trunking
providers, while maintaining interoperability and manageability.
Hosted Centrex Solution
IP Centrex solutions rely on VoIP technology, whose implementation
may present signicant challenges, especially to businesses without
prior VoIP experience. One of the challenges is service continuity during
WAN outages. The Mediant 800 E-SBC, with its Stand-Alone Survivability
feature, is able to monitor registrations to the SIP Proxy, so that if
connectivity is lost the Mediant 800 E-SBC can continue to serve in both
internal and external calling capacities.
Specifications
Capacities
Max Sessions Up to 24
Interfaces
PSTN Capacity Up to 12 analog PSTN interfaces or 4 BRI interfaces (8 calls) with S/T network interfaces, and NT/TE termination
Single E1/T1/J1 span module*, The conguration is xed and is not eld upgradable or changeable
Networking Interfaces
WAN (Optional) WAN interface 10/100/1000 Base-T Copper, Support for T1*, SHDSL*, ADSL2+*
LAN 2 congurations: 4 ports 10/100/1000Base-T plus additional 8 10/100Base-TX ports, 2 ports 10/100/1000Base-T
PoE- Power-Over Ethernet on all ports is optional (Compliant to 802.3af-2003 with auto-detection Up to 15.4W per port), PoE management
WiFi* (Optional) WiFi Access Point support for 802.11 a/b/g/n
OSN Server Platform (Optional)
Single Chassis Integration Embedded, open Network Solution Platform for third-party services
CPU Multipule options
Memory 1G RAM
Storage SATA storage
Security
Access Control White/Black Lists, Denial of Service protection
VoIP Firewall and deep RTP pinhole management according to SIP offer/answer model. Service theft protection by preventing rogue RTP*
packet inspection
Encryption and Authentication TLS, SRTP, HTTPS, SSH, IPSec, IKE, SNMPv3, Client Side Authentication, RADIUS
Privacy Topology Hiding, User Privacy
Trafc Separation Physical or VLAN Interface Separation (Media/OAM/Control)
Interoperability
SIP Standalone SIP B2BUA, Netann (RFC4240), MSCML (RFC5022) or RFC 4117 transcoding device control. Full SIP transparency, mature & broadly deployed SIP stack
ITSP and PBX support Interoperable with many SIP trunk Service Providers and PBX vendors
Transport Mediation SIP over UDP to SIP over TCP or SIP over TLS, IPv4 to IPv6*, RTP to SRTP
Header Manipulation Programmable header manipulation. Ability to add/modify/delete headers
URI and Number manipulations URI User and Host name manipulations. Ingress & Egress Digit Manipulation
Hybrid PSTN mode Connect to TDM PBXs or PRI/CAS trunks for least-cost routing or fallback. Also useful for gradual enterprise migration to SIP, Support for analog and T1/E1/J1*
Transcoding and Vocoders Coder normalization, including: transcoding, coder enforcement and re-prioritization, Extensive vocoder support: Wireline: G.711a/mu, G.723.1, G.729A/B/E, Wideband: G.722*, AMR-WB*
Signal Conversion DTMF/RFC2833, Inband/T.38 Fax, Packet-time Conversion
NAT Local and Far-End NAT Traversal for support of remote workers
Signal Detection Fixed & Dynamic Gain Control*, DTMF/RFC2833, Packet-time conversion
Voice Quality and SLA
Call Admission Control Deny excessive calls based on session establishment rate, number of connections and number of registrations (per SIP trunk or routing domain)
Packet marking 802.1p/Q VLAN tagging, DiffServ, TOS
Intelligent Voice Multiple queues for granular prioritization of VoIP over other non-real time trafc types, Integrated Queuing and scheduling schemes (Strict Priority, Class based Prioritization queuing, fairness)
Stand Alone Survivability Maintain local calls in the event of WAN failure. Outbound calls use PSTN Fallback for external connectivity (including E911)
Impairment Mitigation Packet Loss Concealment, Dynamic Programmable Jitter Buffer, Silence Suppression/Comfort Noise Generation, RTP redundancy, broken connection detection
Gain control Fixed & dynamic voice gain control
Media Anchoring Hair-pinning of local calls to avoid unnecessary media delays and bandwidth consumption
Integrated BroadSoft Full QoS Monitoring (Jitter, Packet Loss, Delay and MOS), full lifecycle management and troubleshooting
PacketSmart™ SLA
Monitoring and VoIP
Troubleshooting* (Optional)
SIP Routing
Routing Methods Request URL, Source/ Destination IP Address, Fully Qualied Doman Name, ENUM*
Alternative Routing and Detect proxy failures and route to alternative proxies. Load balance across a pool of proxies
load balancing
Data Routing (Optional)
DHCP/PPPoE/L2TP/PPTP client towards WAN;
DHCP server towards LAN
VLAN
Layer 3 routing
Internal layer 2 switching
Static and dynamic routing (RIP1, RIP2, OSPF, BGP)
Physical / Environmental
Enclosure 1U chassis
Dimensions 1U x 320mm x 345mm (HxWxD)
Weight Approx. 5.95lb (2.7kg) loaded with OSN
Mounting Desktop or 19” mount
Power 90-254 V AC power feeds
Operating Temperature 5-40C
Regulatory Compliance
Telecommunications TIA/EIA-IS-968, ETSI ES 203 021 (FXO interface)
Safety and EMC • UL 60950
• FCC part 15 Class A
• CE Mark (EN55022 Class A, EN60950, EN 55024, EN300 386)
Mediant
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800 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC)
Mediant 800 E-SBC as a demarcation point for Service
Providers
As small and medium Enterprises strive to control their communication
operating and equipment costs, outsourcing Voice and Data
infrastructure to a Service Provider is becoming an attractive option. The
Mediant 800 E-SBC offers Service Providers, who are delivering hosted
and managed communication services, a clear and easy-to-manage
demarcation point, combining Secured VoIP, Data Routing and Data
Security, WAN Access, Mediation Services, and Service Level
Assurance.
Mediant 800 E-SBC in SMB Networks
Small and medium Enterprises are motivated to become more
productive, efcient, and responsive to their internal users. The
convergence of secured voice services, Stand-Alone Survivability,
Data Routing and Security, WAN Access, Mediation Services and
Service Level Assurance, ensures a high level of investment protection,
cost-optimization and support for the growing communication needs of
the Enterprise.
Benefits for Service Providers
• A highly integrated device for VoIP, Data, Security & Access, forming a
single managed point of demarcation
• Extensive interoperability and partnerships that extend across
multiple vendor devices and protocol implementations
• Enhanced SIP Mediation capabilities, which enable SIP Trunking in
a variety of TDM-PBX and IP-PBX customer environments
• Simplied management & maintenance using a unied
management tool
• Assuring standalone survivability at the customer premises during
WAN outage
• Quality of Experience (QoE) lifecycle management solution
Benefits for Business Customers
• A highly integrated device for secured SIP Trunking and PSTN access,
forming a single and managed point of demarcation for VoIP networks
• An integrated VoIP Media Gateway and E-SBC, reducing CAPEX and
OPEX, eliminating the need to purchase and deploy different devices
and simplifying maintenance and management
• Future-proof solution with the ability to support various SIP Trunking
and UC applications
• Multiple service provider connectivity to optimize tariff rates
• Local survivability and PSTN Failover upon WAN network connectivity
failures
*Roadmap
LAN
PSTN
SP WAN
IP Phones
SMB Network
PBX
PSTN Fallback
IP
SIP Server
Mediant 800 E-SBC