11 April 2017

With a single device, small businesses can continue using their analogue telephones when they switch to VoIP, says Patton.

It has introduced a range of enterprise Session Border Controllers (eSBCs) designed for customers who need to integrate POTS trunks or legacy FXS end points into all-IP and cloud-based communication systems, including on-premise and hosted unified communications (UC).

Patton says most eSBCs are designed for SIP-to-SIP while an analogue telephony adapter (ATA) is needed for TDM-to-IP. The company says its eSBCs do the work of several network elements at half the cost of comparable alternatives.

Called SmartNode, the new range offers two to eight built in analogue telephony interfaces. The company says they also include a stateful firewall with secure TLS/SRTP encryption for signalling and voice plus configurable mechanisms for preventing toll fraud and denial of service attacks.

Other features include failover and load-balancing mechanisms for TDM and LTE survivability, and an embedded PacketSmart probe designed to provide QoS/QoE performance metrics such as packet loss, jitter and MOS.

The range, says Patton, offers two, four or eight FXS ports for up to eight G.722/G.711 or T.38 simultaneous calls along with local call switching for soft fall back to alternative routes. It adds tat they are interoperable for voice and T.38 fax with leading SIP service providers, softswitch vendors and major IP-PBX manufacturers.