How Can Carriers Benefit From Session Border Controllers in The Hybrid Cloud?

Enterprises have been enjoying the benefits of public cloud for a long time.  But it is no secret that carriers are doing the same and migrating their infrastructure to hybrid cloud.

Hybrid cloud is the use of private and public clouds together for increased resilience and geo-redundancy. It can help carriers manage unexpected traffic spikes, like during the current COVID-19 crisis and lower costs.

There is a certain irony in this.  Carriers after all are the original mission critical infrastructure providers.  Now small and midsize carriers have begun to move their infrastructure from commercial off the shelf services (COTS) in colocation facilities, to public cloud and are relying on technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to become more agile.

What does this mean for the Session Border Controller (SBC)?

• Scale:  Using the cloud enables carriers to grow with network demands without sacrificing performance.
• Adaptability: Dialogic BorderNet SBCs can run on COTS in a Data Center, on private cloud (like OpenStack) or in public cloud using the same configurations and settings simplifying NOC operations.  This is key as software is fine tuned to hardware and when performing a “lift and shift” migration you must take care to ensure performance is not impacted.  This allows for a true hybrid solution during peak usage times.
• Redundancy: Now you can benefit from being able to rapidly spin up SBCs at multiple sites around the world on demand, without the time and effort of having to lease colocation space, install physical servers and send engineers to configure and cross connect them.
• Cost reduction: Dialogic’s licensing approach allows for multiple pooled instances. You can spread your sessions across geographies and instances.  And by using AWS MarketPlace you can pay only for what you are using (based on the instance you are using).