Business Software for OpenStack - Page 2

The Mediant Cloud Edition (CE) from AudioCodes is a cloud-native Session Border Controller (SBC) designed to provide scalable, secure, and cost-effective voice and video communication services in virtualized environments. It offers automatic elasticity, allowing resources to scale in or out based on real-time traffic demands, ensuring optimal performance without manual intervention. Built on the same code base as AudioCodes' hardware SBCs, Mediant CE supports broad SIP interoperability, advanced media handling, including transcoding, and robust security features. Its microservices architecture and scalable media cluster facilitate the introduction of new communication services swiftly and economically. Deployment is streamlined through native tools like AWS CloudFormation, and it integrates seamlessly with automation and DevOps workflows.

The Ribbon SBC Software Edition (SBC SWe) is a cloud-native, software-based Session Border Controller designed to secure and optimize real-time communications across various deployment environments. It offers the same robust features as Ribbon's hardware-based SBC 5400 and SBC 7000 appliances, including extensive audio codec transcoding, signaling interworking, call admission control, and comprehensive security measures such as encryption and protection against Denial of Service attacks. The SBC SWe can be deployed as a Virtual Machine (VM) on industry-standard servers in data centers, as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in private clouds using OpenStack, or in public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This flexibility allows enterprises to scale their communications infrastructure efficiently while maintaining high performance and security standards.

The Perimeta Session Border Controller (SBC) by Alianza is a cloud-native, software-only SBC designed to provide secure, scalable, and flexible solutions for voice and multimedia communications. It supports various deployment scenarios, including VoLTE, VoNR, SIP trunking, and Microsoft Teams direct routing, making it suitable for fixed-line, wireless, and enterprise access and interconnect environments. Perimeta operates on a zero-trust security model, ensuring robust protection for cloud infrastructure. Its unique media and signaling plane separation allows for granular scaling to meet changing demands. The SBC features a secure distribution engine (SDE) for load balancing and distributed admission control (DAM), simplifying massively scalable deployments. It is compatible with public, private, and hybrid cloud environments and can be deployed on platforms such as AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware, and ATCA hardware.

Ribbon's PSX Software Edition (PSX SWe) is a virtualized, centralized policy and routing solution designed for service providers to manage and optimize VoIP services across diverse network environments. It delivers intelligent session control for session border controllers (SBCs), media gateways, and call controllers, supporting protocols such as SIP, ENUM, H.323, TDM, SS7/C7, IN/AIN, and IMS. The PSX SWe's distributed architecture enables providers to deploy local instances for performance and resiliency while maintaining centralized policy, routing, and administration, eliminating the need to synchronize configurations across numerous sites. Key applications include Least Cost Routing (LCR), Quality of Service (QoS) routing, toll-free number routing, and number translation services. Additionally, it functions as an IMS Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF) and provides call validation treatment for STIR/SHAKEN and Reputation Scoring services to mitigate call spoofing.

Ericsson's Session Border Controller (SBC) is a carrier-class, virtualized product designed to guarantee security and interoperability between IMS and other networks for both signaling and media. It provides a single offering for Voice over LTE (VoLTE), Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi), Video over LTE (ViLTE), Rich Communication Services (RCS), interconnection, fixed VoIP, and web communication solutions. The SBC can be deployed on nearly any x86 hardware in multiple cloud environments, such as OpenStack, VMware, and Ericsson NFVI. It is also verified on Ericsson software-defined infrastructure (SDI) and can be delivered as part of industrialized solutions. Ericsson’s SBC architecture utilizes centralized control, with the media plane being handled in traffic hotspots, to enable low media latency and transmission savings. The feature-rich, convergent nature of the Ericsson SBC means that service providers can benefit from a single product for all needs, resulting in significant OPEX savings.

IBM PowerVC is an OpenStack-based virtualization management solution designed to simplify the deployment and management of virtual machines across IBM Power Systems running AIX, IBM i, and Linux. It offers rapid deployment capabilities, reducing time-to-value through straightforward installation and configuration processes. The intuitive user interface minimizes the need for specialized training, enhancing administrator productivity. PowerVC facilitates efficient resource utilization by enabling resource pooling and implementing placement policies, thereby optimizing IT costs. The Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO) provides policy-based automation for active workload balancing within host groups, ensuring optimal performance. VM templates support consistency and standardization, streamlining deployments and reducing labor costs. Key features include automated I/O configuration for mobility and high availability, and seamless import and deployment of workload images.

Sangfor aStor is a software‑defined storage solution that unifies block, file, and object storage into a single, elastically expandable resource pool using a fully symmetrical distributed architecture, enabling on‑demand allocation of high‑performance and cost‑optimized, large‑capacity tiers to suit diverse service requirements. Available as either integrated hardware‑software or standalone software, it scales from just three commodity x86 nodes and supports cloud‑scale clusters of thousands of nodes with EB‑level capacity expansion. Its multi‑node parallel processing and intelligent caching (using RDMA, SSD hot‑data cache, and layering) deliver extremely high throughput, IOPS, and small‑IO performance, boosting cache hit rates to 90% and small‑IO handling by up to 65%, while distributed metadata management ensures jitter‑free handling of billions of files.