Overview
Key Differentiators:
- Superior Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) functionality through a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a 3G/4G connection
- Integrated quality monitoring for an entire Microsoft Skype for Businuess call to proactively monitor and troubleshoot quality of experience (QoE)
- Microsoft Skype for Businuess qualified in several categories, including SBC and Survivable Branch Appliance
- Skype for Business 2015 qualified for Enhanced Gateway
Benefits:
- Enterprise security against IP-based attacks
- Topology hiding, user privacy
- Superior Microsoft Skype for Businuess connectivity and survivability for branch offices
- Connection for analog and BRI phones
- PSTN trunking, including T1/E1, FXO and BRI
- Signaling and media interworking, including multi-vendor PBX and IP PBX interoperation
- Connection to service provider SIP trunks with signal and media conversion for reliable interconnect
- PBX, IP PBX and Cloud Unified Communications network migrations
- PSTN fallback (when WAN is down)
Features:
- Easy-to-use Web GUI for provisioning and management. Enterprise Management System and REST API for rapid provisioning and management of large deployments
- Call Admission Control (CAC) to deny excessive calls based on session establishment rate per trunk group
- Microsoft Skype for Businuess, Lync 2013 and Lync 2010 qualified in multiple categories, including SBC, SBA, E-911 ELIN Gateway and Enhanced Gateway, in addition to Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Unified Messaging qualified
- Advanced call routing features such Active Directory/LDAP server routing integration, onboard call forking (“forks” a single call from any source to 8 unique destinations) and other flexible routing options
Specifications
Sessions
- Maximum number of SIP-to-SIP calls: 192
- Maximum number of TDM-to-SIP calls: 144
- Maximum number of total concurrent calls: 192
- Maximum number of transcoded sessions (based upon codec type): 192
- Maximum number of total concurrent calls for Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA): 240
Call Set-Up
- Maximum call set-up rate: 4 cps
Registrations
- Maximum number of registered users: 600
Encryption
- Maximum number of TLS sessions: 192
- Maximum number of SRTP sessions: 192
Business Continuity
- Bypass relays (PRI-PRI, FXS-FXO) for emergency calls (e.g., 911)
- PSTN fallback when WAN is down
- Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) for Skype for Business and Lync
- Resilient Branch Appliance for Skype for Businuess survivability over 3G/4G
- Local survivability for BroadWorks
- Multiple SIP trunking service provider support for redundancy
- Site survivability through built-in SIP registrar
- ITSP E911 support
- Redundant Ethernet ports and multiple spanning trees
Capabilities
- Qualified as a Survivable Branch Appliance for Microsoft Lync 2013, Lync 2010, and Skype for Business deployments
- Qualified as an Enhanced Gateway for Lync 2013, Lync 2010, and Skype for Business deployments
- Lync 2013 and Lync 2010 qualified for SBC and E-911 ELIN gateway
- Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Unified Messaging qualified
- Non-SfB SIP client user state reporting (e.g. presence, user busy, etc.) to Lync clients
- Microsoft SCOM support
- Maximum number of concurrent calls deployed as Microsoft Lync 2010 and Lync 2013 Survivable Branch Appliance with Intel® Celeron™ P4505 1.8 GHz processor: 100
- Validated as interoperable with BroadWorks Release 19.sp1 and compatible with BroadWorks Releases 18.0, 18.sp1, 19.0 SIP interface