Intelligent Interconnects in the VoIP Peering Environment

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Intelligent Interconnects in the VoIP Peering
Environment

• John Longo
• VP Product Marketing Management, NextPoint

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About NextPoint

• Privately held company
• Result of a merger of NexTone and Reef Point
  System
• 350 Employees
• Headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD with offices
  around the world
• Products are deployed in over 35 countries
• Recipient of over 50 product and industry awards
• www.nextpointnetworks.com

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Peering Definition Functional Peering Hierarchy

• VoIP peering refers to interconnection between
  originating and terminating service providers or
  other organizations for the completion of a
  seamless session between subscribers on their
  networks.

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Critical Edge Functions in a Peering Environment
Function Application
Reporting System
Session Management
Provisioning Manager
Policy Manager
Analytics Engine
Dynamic Policy Enforcement
Session Routing or Switching
Policy-Based Session Routing
Session-Based Policy Control
Signaling Interworking
Border Control
Media Routing Engine
Media Processing
Security
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Policy-Based Session Routing

• Sessions routed based on defined policies or
  rules that specify how a session is handled given
  a variety of characteristics such as
• User or community
• Business terms or agreements
• Quality of service
• Service attributes
• Technical requirements
• Combinations of the above

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Session-Based Policy Enforcement

• Policies are enforced on a session-by-session
  basis to ensure network security, performance,
  and optimization, based on criteria such as
• Session/call admission control
• Route management
• Bandwidth control
• Enforcement applied on ingress, transit, and
  egress

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Dynamic Policy Management Enables Intelligent
Interconnects

• Operator defines policies in RSM
• Business policies
• Service policies
• Network policies
• Policy applied on the users sessions
• Is the call permitted?
• Apply best route? Cost? Quality?
• Measure and analyze performance
• Quality of Experience
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Network
• Business parameters
• Optimize performance
• Update policies
• Alert service operator

DPM Dynamic Policy Management
NexTone remains in the path of the call for its
entire duration and provides a timeline of the
service performance
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NextPoint Integrated Border Gateway
Dynamic Policy Management
Policy Decision Functions NexTone SBC Mobile
Proxy
Policy Enforcement Interface
Policy Enforcement Functions Reef Point
Mobility Enhanced BGF
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IBG to support Interconnect Evolution
Mobile/Wireless
Macro Cell
3G
Femtocell/Picocell
Mobile Broadband
Macro Cell
Operator Converged Core
Dual Mode
Access
Interconnect
Broadband/Internet
Residential
Broadband/Internet
Broadband/Internet
SGW
VoIP
SBC
VPN
Fixed
IBGSBCSGW
SOHO/SMB
9/30/2014
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• Thank you.