1 Introduction

Oracle Cloud Native Session Border Controller Release Notes provides following information:

  • Overviews of the new features
  • Information about common services
  • Supported NICs and drivers
  • Known issues
  • Documentation Set

Cloud Native SBC Components

The following section explains the components of the Cloud Native SBC.

The Cloud Native SBC is a containerized network function that provides network functions in the voice network. It consists of several components called the Cloud Native SBC Network Function Components(CNFCs) as below.

  1. Cloud Native SBC Operator
  2. Cloud Native SBC Application
  3. Cloud Native SBC Console
  4. Cloud Native SBC Automated Test Suite
  5. Cloud Native SBC Toolset

Cloud Native SBC Operator

The Cloud Native SBC Operator manages the automated networking for call processing microservices. It assigns the network interfaces and manages the virtual IP addresses for the Cloud Native SBC applications. The Cloud Native SBC Operator uses Kubernetes custom resources to manage the life cycle of these applications that require secondary VNICs for handling SIP and media traffic.

Cloud Native SBC Console

The Cloud Native SBC Console performs the identity and access management and provides a GUI to manage the Cloud Native SBC configurations.

Cloud Native SBC Automated Test Suite

The Cloud Native SBC Automated Test Suite is an optional tool to run test cases on various Cloud Native SBC features such as SIP, Media, Routing and many more. You can perform continuous deployment and test a release once it is deployed using this tool.

Toolset

The Cloud Native SBC toolset consists of the Data Collector that gathers troubleshooting data from the Cloud Native SBC applications. You can attach this data to a service request when requesting assistance from Oracle Support. The toolset also consists of the Core dump manager that is used to transfer the core dumps from the Cloud Native SBC clusters to an external SFTP server.