About This Guide

The Release Notes describe new features, enhancements, supported platforms, upgrade paths, limitations, known issues, resolved issues, and caveats for the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC).

Documentation Set

The following list describes the documents included in the E-CZ8.1.0 documentation set.

ACLI Configuration Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for configuring, administering, and troubleshooting the E-SBC.
Administrative Security Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for supporting the Admin Security, Admin Security with ACP, and JITC feature sets on the E-SBC.
Call Traffic Monitoring Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for configuration using the tools and protocols required to manage call traffic on the E-SBC.
FIPS Compliance Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information about FIPS compliance on the E-SBC.
HMR Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for header manipulation. Includes rules, use cases, configuration, import, export, and examples.
Installation and Platform Preparation Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for system provisioning, software installations, and upgrades.
Release Notes	Contains information about this release, including platform support, new features, caveats, known issues, and limitations.
Time Division Multiplexing Guide	Contains the concepts and procedures necessary for installing, configuring, and administering Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) on the Acme Packet 1100 and the Acme Packet 3900.
Web GUI User Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for using the tools and features of the E-SBC Web GUI.

Related Documentation

The following list describes related documentation for the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC). You can find the listed documents on http://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/communications/ in the "Session Border Controller Documentation" and "Acme Packet" sections.

Accounting Guide	Contains information about the E-SBC accounting support, including details about RADIUS accounting.
ACLI Reference Guide	Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.
Acme Packet 1100 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the hardware components and features of the Acme Packet 1100, as well as conceptual and procedural information for installation, start-up, operation, and maintenance.
Acme Packet 3900 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the hardware components and features of the Acme Packet 3900, as well as conceptual and procedural information for installation, start-up, operation, and maintenance.
Acme Packet 4600 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the hardware components and features of the Acme Packet 4600, as well as conceptual and procedural information for installation, start-up, operation, and maintenance.
Acme Packet 6300 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the hardware components and features of the Acme Packet 6300, as well as conceptual and procedural information for installation, start-up, operation, and maintenance.
HDR Resource Guide	Contains information about the E-SBC Historical Data Recording (HDR) feature. This guide includes HDR configuration and system-wide statistical information.
Installation and Platform Preparation Guide	Contains conceptual and procedural information for system provisioning, software installations, and upgrades.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide	Contains information about E-SBC logs, performance announcements, system management, inventory management, upgrades, working with configurations, and managing backups and archives.
MIB Reference Guide	Contains information about Management Information Base (MIBs), Acme Packet’s enterprise MIBs, general trap information, including specific details about standard traps and enterprise traps, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) GET query information (including standard and enterprise SNMP GET query names, object identifier names and numbers, and descriptions), examples of scalar and table objects.
Security Guide	Contains information about security considerations and best practices from a network and application security perspective for the E-SBC family of products.

Revision History

April 2018	Initial release
May 2018	Removes DTMF Detection limitation on VNF. Updates the "SIPREC Support for SRTP" item in New Features.
May 2018	Adds Caveat stating no 'packet trace remote' on the Acme Packet 3900 Moves 26321175 to caveats .
May 2018	Adds the High Availability issue and workaround to Caveats.
June 2018	Removes H.323 and SIP-H.323 IWF support as VNF Caveats. Adds the Time Division Multiplexing bullet to the"Upgrade and Downgrade Caveats" section of the "Upgrade Information" topic. Adds the Supported Ethernet Controller table to the "Platform Support" topic. Adds the Pooled Transcoding Caveat. Adds the Pooled Transcoding Known Issues.
September 2018	Adds the Acme Packet 3900 IPSec Limitations Caveat. Adds the Known Issue about getting IPSec support for the Acme Packet 3900 and VNF. Adds the IPSec license display on VNF Known Issue. Adds the Oracle accessibility statement to "About This Guide." Moves QoS transcoded calls caveat to "Older Caveats Fixed in This Release." Removes VNF limitation on DTMF generation. Updates typographical error within the Known Issues table. Updates location in full doc set of new features. Adds the VM initial boot Known Issue.
October 2018	TLS1.0 not supported, by default, in compatibility mode.
November 2018	Updates the cipher list for tls-profile.
December 2018	Updates the table in "SRTP Support for SRTP."
March 2019	Adds "Maintain DSA-Based HDR and CDR Push Behavior" to "Upgrade and Downgrade Caveats". Removes T.140-Baudot Relay from the list of unsupported features with Pooled Transcoding.
April 2019	Updates Transcoding caveats with Local Media Playback incompatibility. Adds explanation of change in HMR matching.
May 2019	Updates the Known Issues table for accuracy.
June 2019	Adds Daylong Transcoding Session Cleanup feature to New Features chapter. Adds OCOM incompatibility with IPv6 to known issues.
August 2019	Adds an MSRP Known Issue to the Known Issues table.
October 2019	Updates "Behavioral Changes" and "Deprecated Features" to account for MIB object deprecation.
November 2019	Adds trace tool limitations to "Trace Tools" caveats. Adds VLAN tagging caveat to "Virtual Network Function (VNF) Caveats."
December 2019	Updates Known Issues list
July 2020	Moves bug# 22322673 to Non-present Known Issues table. Repairs confusing known issue on IPv6 and VLANs Updates for SCZ810m1p24.
November 2020	Marks IPSEC as supported for AP1100.