Spotlight on Enterprise SBCs
With Avaya's acquisition of Sipera--so soon following the establishment of an OEM and reseller relationship between Avaya and Acme Packet, and Siemens Enterprise's introduction of OpenScape SBC-- the UC industry has shone a spotlight on session border controllers. Once of interest mainly to telcos looking to better secure and manage SIP trunks, SBCs started appealing to enterprises seeking precisely the same thing.
SBCs continue to make their way into the enterprises mainly through service providers, which deploy them internally to secure their own network, as well as to enterprises as part of the SIP trunking services they subscribe to. But with three of the top UC solutions developers now possessing SBC products of their own (Cisco is the third), enterprises will start seeing SBCs pitched more regularly as a standard component of the overall UC solution.
A profile of the enterprise session border controller market: The players, the prospects, and the pitfalls.






