PERIMETA SBC

INTEGRATED SESSION CONTROLLER

INFRASTRUCTURES ARE EVOLVING, MESSAGES ARE INCREASING AND TRAFFIC PATTERNS

ARE CHANGING. PERIMETA REPRESENTS THE FIRST IN A NEW GENERATION OF SESSION
BORDER CONTROLLER (SBC) PLATFORMS CAPABLE OF MEETING THE DEVELOPING ACCESS AND
INTERCONNECT REQUIREMENTS OF NEXT GENERATION WIRELINE AND WIRELESS NETWORKS.

• Architected for distributed signaling and media • Quality-of-Service

• Flexible hardware/software deployment models • Accessibility
• Security • Interworking
• Policing • Analysis

PERIMETA Although signaling growth will outpace media, the ISC is ideally
suited to supporting the wideband audio and bandwidth-intensive
Purpose-built for distributed deployments within both the control and
high definition video streams that are making up a larger percentage
transport layers of emerging next-generation networks, the Perimeta
of fixed and mobile broadband calls. While integrated within a
architecture comprises two distinct components: a Signaling Session
common platform, the two distinct functions operate autonomously in
Controller (SSC) and Media Session Controller (MSC). Data volumes
a distributed manner. The Perimeta architecture also allows the media
are intensifying and the relationship between signaling and media is
processing capacity of the ISC to be augmented through the addition of
becoming increasingly divided. Conforming to 3GPP specifications for
MSCs under the control of one or more ISCs.
decomposed SBC functions, our unique solution enables independent,
cost effective scaling of these critical control elements.
UNIQUE SOFTWARE + STANDARD HARDWARE = FLEXIBILITY
Where consolidation of these individual components is preferred,
Perimeta is the only session border controller architected as a pure
the Perimeta Integrated Session Controller (ISC) combines both
software solution. It is a critical component in the march towards network
SSC and MSC elements within a single platform, without sacrificing
functions virtualization (NFV) and in helping to transition operators into
performance or scalability.
being true software telcos. Unlike other SBCs, Perimeta is not dependent
on any proprietary equipment, such as network processors. Instead,
INTEGRATED SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE
Perimeta can run on standard server hardware.
The Perimeta Integrated Session Controller is specifically designed to
Perimeta leverages the unprecedented processing power of today’s
handle the rapidly rising proportion of signaling messages, data rates
standard hardware to produce unrivalled performance and scalability,
and number of IP endpoints in next generation networks.
even without specialized hardware. Running the Perimeta SBC on
The ISC is built to operate in rich unified communications environments, highly scalable standardized and open platforms allows you to protect
facilitating the explosive growth in SIP messages brought on by services and enable a network of any size with much lower Capex and Opex
such as sim-ring, presence and IM. compared with SBCs that rely on specialized hardware.

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PERFORMANCE
The Perimeta ISC has been designed for performance. The ISCs multi-
core, multi-threaded software architecture delivers superior packet
and SIP message throughput even during packet marking and header
manipulation.
Perimeta’s unique software-based architecture is designed to take full
advantage of today’s standard multi-core servers and cloud computing
resources, offering extremely high performance across a range of
hardware and virtualized environments.
Perimeta is available on Metaswitch’s own high-availability ATCA
hardware, and works seamlessly on a range of servers from Dell, HP
and Cisco. For performance ratings and hardware specifications, see
the Perimeta Performance and Hardware Specifications document.
ISC on VMware
You can run the Perimeta ISC within the VMware ESXi hypervisor. Large
scale virtual machine deployments can be managed using the suite of
vCenter tools, whilst smaller scale deployments can be managed directly.
For each physical core dedicated to it, Perimeta can support 1,250
concurrent media sessions, over 125 calls per second and 10K
concurrent SIP sessions. This lets Perimeta support a solid baseline of
traditional voice traffic, while having significant spare headroom for more
advanced SIP services such as presence, or for calls using direct media.
CONTROL
Perimeta offers unmatched packet coloring, connection admission
control and rate limiting of messages. These techniques
reduce the probability of congestion, preventing damaging
network-wide retransmission storms while guaranteeing
low, reliable, post dial delay metrics.
The ISC can prioritize messages related to calls in-progress. Active
queue management intelligently handles new session establishment
requests.
The ISC can intelligently manage and restrict bandwidth
use by both interconnect peers and individuals. Critical to maintaining
strict quality of service guarantees, the ISC can also read then mark
or re-mark the IP differentiated services code point (DSCP) field. This
ensures the expedited forwarding of voice and assured forwarding of
video streams by upstream and downstream network switch/router
elements.
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TRANSCODING
Perimeta’s comprehensive media transcoding function simplifies
communication between different networks and endpoints, dynamically
routing media traffic through the most efficient transcoding path, always
guaranteeing the highest quality of experience. Choose between
software transcoding for simplicity and scalability on any platform, and
hardware transcoding with DSPs on compatible platforms for density
and power efficiency. For more info go to www.metaswitch.com/sbc-
transcoding.
ROUTING
Evolving all-IP communications networks are depending on an
increasing number of peering interconnects to deliver ubiquitous
service across physical and logical domains. Sophisticated and
granular control of traffic traversing these trunks is required to
ensure that sessions are handled as efficiently and cost-effectively
as possible, when they egress the host carrier’s infrastructure.
Comprehensive policies and dynamic routing functions can be
applied to all calls passing through the ISC. Along with providing source
and destination number, CIC or domain-based routing, sessions may
be directed to specific trunks using static, least-cost or time-of-day
parameters. The ISC can also automatically detect the availability of
adjacent peers or load-balance across trunks with identical costs.
ANALYSIS
Integrating with the exclusive MetaView Service Assurance Server,
Perimeta session border controller platforms export call detail records
down to the individual SIP and H.248 packet payload. Enabling
comprehensive always-on post-analysis, without the need to deploy
expensive distributed packet capture probes, individual call traces
include every internal routing and processing decision made by the ISC:
insight that can dramatically reduce mean-time-to-repair.
Perimeta also exports detailed unsampled call quality records
to the MetaView Service Assurance Server. Combining these
with records collected from other network elements and
endpoints, MetaView can provide objective quality of experience
measurements while delivering a comprehensive end-to-end
view of overall network performance. The ISC delivers total visibility
without degrading router performance or implementing costly network
analytics components.
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PERIMETA MEDIA SESSION CONTROLLER SPECIFICATIONS
SIGNALING & CONTROL SECURITY
• SIP • DoS/DDoS Detection and Protection
• SIP Message Manipulation • Bandwidth policing
• H.248 (MSC control) • Topology hiding
• H.323 and H.323/SIP interworking • Static Access Control Lists (ACLs) with whitelisting
• MSRP for RCS / RCS-e • Dynamic ACLs with whitelisting and blacklisting
• Capacity Control • Per-port blacklisting
• QoS packet marking • TLS and IMS-AKA
• NAT traversal • SRTP
• SIP routing • Alarm on attack
• Dial plan routing • Separation of management and data traffic
• Load balancing
• Route policies and profiles MANAGEMENT
• Service network policies • Command-line interface
• Emergency detection and routing • SNMPv2c
• Privacy • Secured management access (SSH, SFTP, SCP)
• IPv6-IPv4 Interworking • Bulk configuration and staging (configuration cloning, export and
• DNS restore of configuration snapshot)
• 3GPP IMS P-CSCF and IBCF • Integrated Session Flow / Call Tracing
• 3GPP IMS Rx Policy Control Interface (Diameter) • MetaView Service Assurance Server Integration
• Lawful intercept • SNMP Trap/Inform based alarms
• MetaView alarm collection and management Integration
MEDIA
• XML CDRs
• IPv6-IPv4 Interworking • VQM reporting
• QoS and Bandwidth Enforcement • Northbound APIs for configuration
• Media Bypass
• SRTP-RTP Interworking REDUNDANCY
• SRTP Pass-through • 1:1 redundant service interface
• DTMF Interworking • 1:1 redundant management interface
• NAT Traversal • Active:active geo-redundancy
• Software transcoding on all Perimeta platforms
• Hardware DSP transcoding on compatible Perimeta COTS plat-
forms (requires full-height PCIe card slot for each DSP board)
• 3GPP IMS A-BGF and I-BGF
• MSRP for RCS / RCS-e

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