Load Balancing

This section describes Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller load balancing. You can use session agent groups to assist in load balancing among session agents. You define concurrent session capacity and rate attributes for each session agent and then define the session agent group. Next, you select the allocation strategy you want applied to achieve the load balancing you want.

The following example shows a configuration for load balancing gateways based on a proportional allocation strategy.

This image displays the OCSBC load balancing traffic between members of a session agent group.

Routing and load balancing capabilities include the following:

least cost, which includes cost-based and time-based routing
customer preference
traffic aggregation
routing by media (codec) type
capacity-based, by destination
service element load balancing
service element failure detection and re-route
session agent failure
routing by codec