1. User's Guide
  2. Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker Overview

1 Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker Overview

The Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker (OECB) is an enterprise-class, core signaling component designed to simplify communications networks. It combines innovative approaches toward dial plan management and SIP topology-aware routing with a purpose-built, Graphical User Interface. While at its best in signaling environments comprised of products and solutions from multiple vendors, it is useful for consolidating policy enforcement decisions, integrating third-party applications, and managing a network-wide routing topology even in homogenous architectures.

The OECB is typically deployed in the core of a multi-vendor communications network where multiple UC, PBX, and service provider trunk interfaces must be interconnected. It normalizes communications between disparate premise-based systems and connects them to service provider networks and hosted applications through Enterprise SBCs.

This illustration shows an ECB deployed in a multi-vendor network.

Key benefits include:

  • Increases scalability and simplicity
  • Protects and extends investments in legacy communications infrastructure
  • Reduces operations expenses
  • Improves network availability
  • Services and Applications

OECB operational functionality focuses around the following:

  • SIP Signaling Management—The functional components of the OECB's software architecture for SIP signaling management focus around its dial plan, and its routing engine. These two components represent the foundation of the OECB's core SIP processing engine, and were specifically crafted to address, in a generic sense, the problems arising from the organic evolution of SIP-based enterprise communications networks.
  • SIP Registrar—Provides a centrally-deployed location service for the enterprise.
  • User Authentication—Provides for operation with an internal or external authentication resource, such as Active Directory, for authorization and authentication of users registering at the OECB.
  • Header Manipulation—Provides telephony engineering with a means of assembling signaling header information specifically for the enterprise's operations, conformance and interoperability needs.

The Oracle® Enterprise Communications Broker User Guide provides operational explanations and configuration instructions for each of these.