1. Service Provider and Session Router Release Notes
  2. New Features

2 New Features

The S-Cz8.2.0 release supports the following new features and enhancements.

Note:

System session capacity and performance are subject to variations between various use cases and major software releases.

Telephony Fraud Protection

You can configure the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) to protect against fraudulent calls by enabling telephony fraud protection and creating lists of phone numbers to block, allow, redirect, and rate-limit. The lists reside together in a single XML file that you create and then specify as the source file in the fraud-protection configuration under system. The source file can contain any combination of the list types, but the system limits the total file size to 100,000 entries. You can also configure the OCSBC to enforce an order of precedence among the lists and among the dial patterns.

See "Telephony Fraud Protection" in the ACLI Configuration Guide.

MSRP Support for VNF

The CZ8.2.0 release adds support for Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) to the Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM), Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and VMware. Note that the system requires 16GB of RAM.

Multimedia Priority Service for VoLTE Access

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) supports Multimedia-priority services (MPS) to prioritize communications by emergency personnel within VoLTE networks. Specifically, the OCSBC supports emergency service authorization and resource allocation for an MPS call. You enable support for MPS by enabling mps-volte in the sip-config. You configure this support in conjunction with your net-management-control and rph-profile configurations.

See "IMS Support" in the ACLI Configuration Guide.

S8HR Roaming Compatibility

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) allows you to configure support for S8 Home Routing (S8HR) routing architecture. S8 is the 3GPP-defined Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway to Serving Gateway (S-GW) interface used when a UE is roaming. S8HR is described in full by 3GPP TR 23.749. The OCSBC feature provides support for UE connectivity. sec-agree and emergency call services.

See "IMS Support" in the ACLI Configuration Guide.

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) supports Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) over network interfaces. BFD is a network protocol used to detect faults between two forwarding engines connected by a link. It provides low-overhead detection of faults, even on physical media that doesn't support failure detection of any kind, such as Ethernet, virtual circuits, tunnels and MPLS Label Switched Paths. You configure BFD for functions, including gateway path verification.

BFD platform support for this release:

  • OCSBC — Acme Packet 4600, Acme Packet 6100, Acme Packet 6300, and Acme Packet 6350.

This release does not support BFD on the Oracle Communications Session Recorder (OCSR) and the Oracle Communications Session Load Balancer (OCSLB).

See "High Availability Nodes" in the ACLI Configuration Guide.

RTP TTL

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) allows you to set, on a per media-policy basis, the number of hops RTP packets can traverse before they should be dropped.

See "Realms and Nested Realms" in the ACLI Configuration Guide.

Upgrade Information

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) includes the check-upgrade-readiness ACLI command, which presents system information arranged to clearly tell you if you need to perform any tasks before you upgrade.

See "Upgrading Software" in the Platform Preparation and Installation Guide.

Mellanox® Support

SCZ8.2.0 supports interface card from Mellanox® for VNF deployments. Refer to "Platform Support" in these Release Notes for details on specific cards, drivers, interface modes, and functional support.

Simultaneous DTMF and Audio Payload Mapping

In addition to enabling audio payload type mapping for AMR and AMR-WB and enabling EVS AMR-WB IO payload type mapping, the audio-payload-type-mapping option, within the media-manager, configures the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) to support simultaneous payload type mapping for audio and DTMF RFC-2833 for AMR, AMR -WB, and EVS in AMR wideband IO mode. Payload type mapping requires fully compatible SDP, with the exception of the payload type number. Simultaneous audio and DTMF RFC 2833 payload type mapping also requires that the payload type numbers for audio and DTMF be different.

Software-Based Transcoding Support

SCZ8.2.0 adds support for software transcoding of the following codecs for VNF deployments.

  • EVS (Service Provider, only)
  • OPUS
  • iLBC

Refer to "Transcoding Support" in these Release Notes for complete lists of transcoding codecs, based on Acme Packet and VNF platforms.

REST API

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) includes a REST API that accepts Create, Read, Update, and Delete ( CRUD) operations over HTTPS. For a description of the supported REST API endpoints, see the REST API documentation.

OpenStack Heat Template

The following new parameters are available for configuration in the environmental file.

  • diskPartitions—Specify the percentage of disk space that will be allocated for each partition.
  • applyBaseConfiguration—Enable or disable the base configuration, which is suitable for minimal Standalone or HA-pair functionality.
  • configuration—If applyBaseConfiguration is set to true, specify the input parameters for the base configuration. Sub-parameters include:
    • dosCores—Specify the number of CPU cores dedicated for denial-of-service protection.
    • forwardingCores—Specify the number of CPU cores dedicated for forwarding frames.
    • transcodingCores—Specify the number of CPU cores dedicated for transcoding media.
    • ntpServer1—Specify the IP address of an NTP server to use for time synchronization.
    • ntpServer2—Specify the IP address of an NTP server to use for time synchronization.
    • snmpCommunityName—Specify the name of the SNMPv2 community to use for SNMP management.
    • snmpIpAddress—Specify the IP address to add to the SNMPv2 community for SNMP management.
  • wancom0VLAN—(Only available on Pike and newer) Specify the bootparameter VLAN value for the wancom0 interface.
  • vnicBinding—Specify the virtual NIC binding type for each media interface.

For a list of all supported parameters, see the The Platform Preparation and Installation Guide.

Product and Entitlement Provisioning from the Heat template

This release supports provisioning both the product and any of its entitlements when deploying virtual machines from a Heat template.

For more details, see the "Virtual Machine Platforms" chapter in The Platform Preparation and Installation Guide. For examples, see the README file located in the Heat Orchestration Template .tar.gz file.

Performance Enhancements

Optimization and performance enhancements have been made to SBC components. These include:
  • SIPd, Radd, and MBCD enhancements that increase performance
  • Improved SSM card utilization
  • File descriptor monitoring

FIPS Support for Service Provider SBC

As of release S-Cz8.2.0p5, the OCSBC supports FIPS.

See the FIPS Compliance Guide for complete information about FIPS support.