Security & Compliance Perimeter Defense & Topology Hiding Ref: IETF RFC 5853 / RFC 3261 / RFC 3550

Carrier SBC

Session Border Controller (SBC) Network Demarcation & Security Switch

Direct Telecom Definition • Carrier Industry Standard

Carrier-grade Session Border Controllers deployed at network perimeters to protect IP telephony infrastructure against DDoS attacks, SIP toll fraud, topology leakage, and protocol anomalies.

Technical Definition & Carrier Engineering Standards

A Session Border Controller (SBC) acts as the secure voice firewall at the boundary between private carrier networks and external untrusted IP networks. AVM Networks deploys active-active clustered SBC nodes that perform Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA) media bridging, TLS/SRTP encryption, SIP header normalization, NAT traversal, and real-time rate limiting to defend against volumetric SIP floods and illegal robocalling.

Related Telecommunications Terminology

Routing & Softswitch

Hosted PBX Server

High-availability virtualized Asterisk and FreePBX servers deployed in carrier-grade data centers for multi-branch corporate voice, call queuing, call recording, and SIP trunk termination.

Routing & Softswitch

Class 4 Softswitch

A high-capacity softswitch platform engineered for wholesale carriers to route long-distance and international VoIP traffic with real-time Least-Cost Routing (LCR), protocol normalization, and interconnect billing.

Voice Protocols

SIP

Signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, and terminating real-time voice and video sessions.

Security & Compliance

STIR/SHAKEN

A suite of protocols designed to combat illegal caller ID spoofing and verify authentic calling identity.