As services such as Unified Communications, Conferencing, Collaboration, and Contact Centers, all continue their migration to cloud environments, it is vital that SBCs make that same transition. Ribbon's virtualization strategy continues on its heritage of ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable real-time communications.  With the virtualization of our SBC, we take the same extensive feature and functionality of our appliance-based SBCs, but now provide a software-only solution, the SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe).

With SBC SWe, service providers can be sure they will deliver secure real-time communications in multiple virtual and cloud environments without compromising scale, performance, or feature functionality.

Download our SBC SWe Datasheet

View the SBC SWe datasheet for a detailed list of features and capabilities

SBC SWe Deployment Flexibility Provides Choices

Ribbon’s virtual and cloud SBC SWe has you covered, whether your preference is a virtual environment in a data center, in your own private cloud, or on a public cloud.

The SBC SWe can be instantiated in multiple virtual or cloud environments including:

Domain Hypervisors Network Functions Virtualization
Private DC VMWare, KVM  
Private Cloud VMWare, KVM Yes (OpenStack)
Public Cloud VMWare, KVM Yes (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Our SBC SWe is available directly from Ribbon, through a channel partner, or via the AWS Marketplace

Bandwidth Deploys SBC SWe on AWS to Rapidly Address COVID-19 Demand

“We worked with the Ribbon team to rapidly deploy their SBC SWe on AWS and were able to easily accommodate the rapid spike in demand from our customers. Our customers are some of the most recognized brands in the world and they have come to expect world-class support from Bandwidth.”

Scott Mullen
Chief Technology Officer

Bandwidth Case Study

SBC SWe on AWS
SBC SWe with GPU-based Transcoding for Network Interconnect

Vivo Deploys SBC SWe Nationwide, Including Using GPU-based Transcoding for Network Interconnect

“Deploying Ribbon’s SBCs in a virtual environment enables us to grow our offering, optimize our investment, and increase the operational efficiency of our VoIP services”

“Expanding our trusted relationship with Ribbon continues to help us serve our subscribers with secure, advanced services.”

Átila Branco

Vivo Planning Director

Vivo Case Study

Session Border Controller Software Edition (SBC SWe)

Ribbon's SBC SWe embodies Ribbon’s innovation, knowledge and expertise in multiple virtual and cloud environments.

Microservices designed to optimize resource allocation, dynamic scaling, and automated lifecycle management, are all attributes of the SBC SWe, delivering carrier-grade SBC capabilities such as robust network security, sophisticated routing, and policy management, overload controls, SIP normalization, SIP Recording, SIP over WebSocket, IPv4-IPv6 interworking, and audio transcoding.

Use the SBC SWe to meet or exceed the demanding requirements you have for SIP trunking, Network-Network Interconnect, Unified Communications as a Service, Contact Center as a Service, or just to migrate from TDM to IP peering.

With the SBC SWe, you can perform extensive audio codec transcoding achieving the highest scalability with the lowest cost/transcode in any cloud environment.

In addition, SBC SWe Call Detail Records and KPIs are key inputs for Ribbon Analytics to assist network operators with robocall and fraud detection and mitigation.

The SBC SWe has the following certifications:

  • Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, Zoom Phone BYOC, Webex Local Gateway, Google Voice SIP Link, AWS Chime, and many other platforms
  • JITC and FIPS-140-2 for the US Federal Government
Session Border Controller Virtual Software

SBC SWe Attributes

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Certified for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

Yes

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Audio Transcoding

CPU
GPU

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High Availability

Yes

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Automated Deployment

Yes - Terraform

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Signaling Only Session Capacity

1400 - 9000
(Dependent on VM type)

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Session Capacity with Media Transcoding (G.711 – G.729)

2250(CPUs) – 7300(GPUs)
(Dependent on VM type)

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Number of VCPUs

2-32

Ribbon Application Management Platform

PSX SWE - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION RAMP

Centralized management of virtual SBCs is provided by Ribbon Application Management Platform offering a complete Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security solution. Delivering intuitive, reliable, scalable, and automated management, a service provider can quickly configure systems, identify and remediate issues, deliver improved customer experience, and do so at reduced operational costs.

Ribbon Application Management Platform is available to manage core SBCs deployed across multiple private and public cloud environments The platform itself is designed using cloud-native principles and can be deployed in multiple data center or public and private cloud environments in standalone or high availability configurations, including options for geographic redundancy.

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