What Separates the Patton SN5541 eSBC from other Session Border Controllers?

With the release of Patton’s SN5541 Enterprise Session Border Controller, a few questions arose for me. First, what is the benefit of having an ESBC and second, why does this product stand out amongst the rest?

Well, I have the answers for you, but first, let’s discuss what and why you would want or need an ESBC.

What Does an ESBC Do?

An ESBC is deployed in the session layer and connects the enterprise communications infrastructure to the public Internet, session initiation protocol (SIP) trunk service providers and/or private networks. It terminates and reassembles received communications to manage traffic while ensuring that the entire UC solution is secure. To help make this a little less technical think of it this way, an ESBC acts like the security guard and only allows those with the right credentials in.

The Advantages of Patton’s SN5541

So let’s get to it, what really separates the SN5541 from its competitors? Well, some of the key differentiators are that it has an FXS long reach 10 km or 6.2 miles, that one line could be for each independent FXS port and it will still ring 3 phones at the end of that line, while also supporting all three different methods of message indication. It is also programmed with Dual software image, allowing your device to have active and passive software image, which gives you the possibility to do an immediate switch from one software image to the other quickly without rebooting. This is beneficial to you because if one image fails over, there is a backup of the other image in place. Patton also included secure zero touch provisioning through HTTPS, which makes things easy and secure, saving you time and labor. The 5541 also includes PacketSmart (License Required), which is a very powerful network assessment & monitoring tool used to observe customer networks and live calls, identifying any LAN or WAN issues that affect VoIP call quality.

SN5541 Features:

• Up to 8 FXS interfaces—2, 4 or 8 FXS ports. Up to 8 G.722/G.711 or T.38 calls simultaneously. Includes SIP TLS/SRTP.
• Network Monitoring—Embedded Packet Smart Agent for network monitoring and assessment 24×7.
• Auto-Provisioning—Secure zero-touch provisioning (HTTPS) for ease of use.
• Easy Management & Provisioning—WebWizard, HTTPS zero touch provisioning, SNMP, command line interface. Automated mass provisioning with dual software image for efficient large-scale deployments
• Full VoIP protocol support—SIPv2, SIPv2 over TLS, ISDN, T.38, G.722 HD voice, RTP Security with SRTP, fax and modem bypass, DTMF relay.

Another major benefit of the SN5541 series ESBC is that you will be able to have one single device instead of several separate devices. For example, you will no longer need an edge router, firewall or ATA you can simply deploy one SN5541 product which is essentially all of these devices rolled into one! Patton also has a  web wizard tool that you can use to create your own web wizard, they have also put together some templates for these web wizards which are accessible once deployed, to help get you started.

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