What Is a Session Agent?

A session agent defines an internal signaling endpoint. It is an internal next hop signaling entity that applies traffic shaping attributes to flows. For each session agent, concurrent session capacity and rate attributes can be defined. Service elements such as gateways, softswitches, and gatekeepers are defined automatically within the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller as session agents. The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller can also provide load balancing across the defined session agents.

SIP session agents

SIP session agents can include the following:

  • Softswitches
  • SIP proxies
  • Application servers
  • SIP gateways

H.323 session agents

H.323 session agents can include the following:

  • gatekeepers
  • gateways
  • MCUs