1. Service Provider and Session Router Release Notes
  2. About this Guide

About this Guide

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCUSM) Release Notes document provides the following information when applicable:

  • An introduction to the full release
  • An overview of the new features available
  • An overview of the interface enhancements
  • A summary of known issues, caveats, and behavioral changes

If any of these sections does not appear in the document, then there were no changes to summarize in that category for that specific release.

Documentation Set

The following table describes the documentation set for this release:

Document Name Document Description
Acme Packet 3900 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 3900.
Acme Packet 4600 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 4600.
Acme Packet 6100 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6100.
Acme Packet 6300 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6300.
Acme Packet 6350 Hardware Installation Guide Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6350.
Release Notes Contains information about the current documentation set release, including new features and management changes.
ACLI Configuration Guide Contains information about the administration and software configuration of the Service Provider Session Border Controller (SBC).
ACLI Reference Guide Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide Contains information about 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), Oracle Communication'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.
Accounting Guide Contains information about the SBC’s accounting support, including details about RADIUS and Diameter accounting.
HDR Resource Guide Contains information about the SBC’s Historical Data Recording (HDR) feature. This guide includes HDR configuration and system-wide statistical information.
Administrative Security Essentials Contains information about the SBC’s support for its Administrative Security license.
SBC Family Security Guide Contains information about security considerations and best practices from a network and application security perspective for the SBC family of products.
Installation and Platform Preparation Guide Contains information about upgrading system images and any pre-boot system provisioning.
Call Traffic Monitoring Guide Contains information about traffic monitoring and packet traces as collected on the system. This guide also includes WebGUI configuration used for the SIP Monitor and Trace application.
FIPS Compliance Guide Contains conceptual and procedural information for configuration using the tools and protocols required to manage call traffic on the SBC.
HMR Resource Guide Contains information about configuring and using Header Manipulation Rules to manage service traffic.
TSCF SDK Guide Contains information about the client-side SDK that facilitates the creation of secure tunnels between a client application and the TSCF of the SBC.
REST API Guide Contains information about the supported REST APIs and how to use the REST API interface.

Revision History

This section contains a revision history for this document.

Date Description
December 2018
  • Initial Release
February 2019
  • Updates "Transcoding Support" for accuracy.
March 2019
  • Adds "Maintain DSA-Based HDR and CDR Push Behavior" to "Upgrade and Downgrade Caveats".
  • Updates "Default VNF Resources" for accuracy.
  • Removes T.140 Baudot Relay from the list of unsupported features with pooled transcoding.
  • Updates processor specification requirements for VNFs
  • Updates VNF Caveats with IXGBE driver limitation.
April 2019
  • Updates for S-Cz8.2.0p3.
  • Corrects "Transcoding Support" table.
  • Adds explanation of change in HMR matching.
May 2019
  • Updates minimum vSBC signaling core requirement to 2
  • Adds MSRP to list of features in the "Encryption for Virtual SBC" table.
  • Adds Performance Enhancements section to New Features list.
June 2019
  • Adds OCOM incompatibility with IPv6 to known issues.
October 2019
  • Updates the Known Issues table.
November 2019
  • Adds trace tool limitations to "Trace Tools" caveat.
  • Adds FIPS support to coincide with the S-Cz8.2.0p5 release.
December 2019
  • Adds MSRP caveat
  • Updates closed Known Issues
February 2020
  • Adds telephone-event to supported codecs list for VNF
July 2020
  • Moves bug# 22322673 to Non-present Known Issues table.
  • Corrects product name in book title.
  • Repairs confusing known issue on IPv6 and VLANs
August 2020
  • Updates "PCIe Transcoding Card Requirement" with bullet about the maximum forwarding core.
June 2021
  • Adds MSRP and Transcoding caveats.
  • Adds caveat on toggling sip-interfaces with TCP