Course Overview
Students are expected to be active participants in the learning process. Emphasis is placed on diagnostic tools and troubleshooting strategies to help students become self-sufficient in the use and support of AudioCodes
Who should attend
Students are expected to have an applicable professional background with a minimum of one year of practical experience with:
- PSTN protocols and knowledge of analog and digital telephony systems
- VoIP and SIP network architecture
- Understanding of SIP control protocol signaling stacks
- IP networking
Course Objectives
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Identify the AudioCodes products that support the Session Border Controller (SBC) features
- Identify the functions of the SBC
- Describe how the SBC handles SIP messages
- Understand the reasons for message manipulation
- Understand the survivability concept
- List SBC security features
- Configure SBC message manipulation rules
- Configure the parameters required by the SBC
- Configure the SBC for SIP trunking
- Configure AudioCodes Gateways for PSTN fallback needs
The course includes an ACA (AudioCodes Certificate Associated) certification exam.
Course Content
Course Topics
AudioCodes Presentation
- HMI Introduction
- Basic configuration
- Management and maintenance options
- Web Interface
- Debugging tools
AudioCodes SBC Platforms
- Pure SBC Portfolio
- Mediant 2600/4000/9000
- Hybrid SBC Portfolio
- Mediant 500/8xx/1000/3000
- Integrated SBC and MSBR
- Mediant 500/8xx/1000
- Software SBC
SBC Description
- SBC definition
- SBC functions
- SBC topologies and deployment
- Logical and physical connections
SBC features
- NAT traversal
- Transcoding
- Topology hiding
- VoIP firewall
- SIP routing
- SIP normalization
- Survivability
SBC Basic Terminology
- Signaling Routing Domain (SRD)
- SIP Interface
- Media Realm
- IP Groups
- Proxy Sets
- SIP dialog initiation process description
- IP-to-IP routing
SBC Configuration
- Parameters and tables
- General parameters settings
- Table assignments
- Configuration example
SBC Media Handling
- Media capabilities
- Media security
- Media handling modes
- Transcoding
- Extended and Allowed coders process
- Media handling example
SBC Message Manipulation
- Reasons for SIP message manipulation
- Message manipulation configuration
- Message Manipulation Set
- Message manipulation rules
- IP-to-IP number manipulation
SBC Security Brief Overview
- Security needs
- Network security feature
- Topology hiding
- Firewall
SBC security feature
- SIP firewall filtering rules (classification rules)
- Call Admission Control (CAC) to enforce limits
- SIP protection – filter methods
- Signaling security – TLS
- Media security – SRTP
- Block unregistered users
Management security feature
- HTTPS
- SSH
- SNMP
SBC Survivability
- Concepts
- Configuration
AudioCodes Gateways Introduction
- VoIP gateways
- Configuration basics
- IP-to-IP concept
- Inbound and outbound routing
- IP-to-IP SIP trunking scenario configuration example
SBC High Availability
- Concepts
- Configuration
- Certification