Sonus
Networks, Inc., a
global leader in enabling and securing real-time communications,
announced today that the Sonus Session Border Controller Software
edition (SBC SWe) will be part of a joint project with HP at Mobile
World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, demonstrating how delivery of
Cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) and Rich Communications Services
(RCS) can be accelerated through virtualization.
The demonstration – located in the HP booth in Hall 2 Stand 2D50 – will
be comprised of the Sonus SBC SWe running as a fully featured Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV) application on the HP OpenNFV Platform.
Together, Sonus and HP will demonstrate how hardware, power and space
requirements for deploying network functions can be reduced without
losing functionality.
Sonus and HP will demonstrate the Virtual Network Function as a Service
(VNFaaS) use case, by enabling service providers to virtualize
enterprise customer premise equipment (CPE) on service providers’
virtual networks so that enterprises can consume the resources they
require as virtual services. As network functions are virtualized, this
demonstration will show that the typical base of dedicated hardware
appliances normally used by network operators is no longer required.
Consequently, scalability and customization of real-time communications
features and services such as UC or RCS become easier to implement
across the network.
The Sonus SBC SWe is the industry’s first software-based SBC architected
to deliver unlimited scalability with the same advanced features and
functionality of the Sonus SBC 5000 Series on a virtualized platform.
The portability and flexibility of the SBC SWe makes it an ideal choice
for service providers that have invested in virtualization technology,
prefer pre-packaged “solutions in a box,” require remote network
deployments or want to expand opportunities into new geographic markets
where deploying a hardware solution would be impractical or cost
prohibitive. Sonus provides customers with a set of performance
specifications for their host platforms, enabling customers to rapidly
expand capacity, calls per second, features, transcoding, and security
capabilities with a simple license key as business demands change.