[cisco-voip] 7200VXR as Session Border Controller/CUBE

Alex Balashov abalashov at evaristesys.com
Fri Feb 13 18:03:01 EST 2009


Ah, OK.  I stand corrected and educated!

Peter Slow wrote:

> I will never argue that cisco.com is filled with marketing fluff.
> IP-IP gateway definitely requires an IOS  featureset greater than that
> of the base featureset. At cisco, CUBE combined with other IOS
> features is used to provide the functionality of an SBC in IOS. IP IP
> GW/CUBE can terminate RTP streams and signaling and completely (to an
> extent based on callflow and timing of mesages) shield something on
> one side of the CUBE from the adressing and messaging on the other.
> 
> -Pete
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Alex Balashov
> <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>> This is something different.  I was assuming you were running plain IOS.
>>
>> chris.flav at yahoo.ca wrote:
>>
>>> :-0.
>>>
>>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/gatecont/ps5640/product_data_sheet09186a00801da698.html
>>>
>>> So i am assuming others will second this opinion that CUBE is not
>>> offerring SBC-like functionality?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:43:47 To: Peter Slow<peter.slow at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] 7200VXR as Session Border Controller/CUBE
>>>
>>>
>>> Cisco.com is marketing.
>>>
>>> Peter Slow wrote:
>>>
>>>> cisco.com disagrees, is there a particular document you were reading
>>>> that indicated that?
>>>>
>>>> -Peter
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/index.html
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Alex Balashov
>>>> <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>>>>> Among other things, you can't hairpin SIP-to-SIP calls on that platform
>>>>> (as
>>>>> far as I know).
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex Balashov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> A Cisco VFC router is not an SBC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> chris.flav at yahoo.ca wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are looking to deploy a SBC for SIP subscribers and are looking at
>>>>>>> using a 7204VXR.  We are not needing transcoding facilities but simply
>>>>>>> forwarding SIP INVITES and signalling to and from a SIP gateway to
>>>>>>> subscriber endpoints.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The documentation regarding the setup of such a system is terse,
>>>>>>> therefore any pointers to related information or example configs would
>>>>>>> be appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have looked at
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/voice/cube/configuration/guide/12_4t/vb_12_4t_book.html
>>>>>>>  however I am not seeing any info on the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - RADIUS authentication of SIP registrations?
>>>>>>> - different SIP gateways based on realms/fqdn?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone have the most basic snippets required to allow for:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - SIP gateway behind NAT
>>>>>>> =====================
>>>>>>> it has to be more than:
>>>>>>> !
>>>>>>> ip nat sip-sbc
>>>>>>>  proxy [inside.ip.address] 5060 [outside.ip.address] 5060 protocol udp
>>>>>>>  mode allow-flow-around
>>>>>>>  session-timeout 300
>>>>>>>  override address
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - RADIUS auth ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - REGISTER to SIP gateway (proxying?)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do we need to use the sip-ua for this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> C. Flav
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