In essence an SBC represents the high end (in terms of cost and features) option. You can accomplish a great deal of what they do with varying degrees of success using open-source components as well, which is what my company (www.evaristesys.com) specialises in, but if you have a large budget an SBC might be the more canonical and well- traveled route at that level of CAPEX. It also provides some elegant solutions to a few vexing problems plaguing the open source camp. So, no, you don't "need" one, but you may very well want one. On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Jones <new2voip at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all and pardon the naive question. I'm looking to start my own small town based ITSP (mini vonage) with approximately 2,000 concurrencies. What I'd like to know is, do I or don't I need a session border controller to get this working. I was told I don't need any hardware and I could get this up and running with software only. I don't know how true this is therefore I decided to ask the experts.
Furthermore, would a large provider be willing to trunk my connection if it is software only? What do you fancy? If you had to guess a cost to get something like this up and running, would it be under $50,000.00 I don't have much money to work with at the moment and I'm looking for someone with more experience might do. I'm guessing I could get it all running without an SBC and without heavy hardware or am I wrong because of DSP encoding and the likes.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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