Cisco told us it began life as the IP-IP Gateway product. It was originally added to provide a public SIP / RFC2833 interface to older Cisco Call Manager systems. But they've said the product has matured a lot since then. I haven't personally seen any Service Providers go into operation using it, while I've seen dozens using Acme Packet, Covergence and Ditech Peerpoint (RIP). Any SBC entrant would have tons of work to catch up. If a new SP buildout is rich in time and patience, they should definitely help the newer vendors mature their products by providing real world load, feature requests, and defect reports. On Nov 22, 2009, at 23:53, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:

Is this "SBC" CUBE-derived?

randal k wrote:

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I asked this same question over on Cisco-NSP the other day and got zero responses; I am in the same boat you are, Ben, and am very interested in anybody's opinions/history with this hardware. I recently came across Cisco?s offering for a SBC -> The ?ACE20-SBC-K9? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/7600/install_config/sbc_config_guide... I was Curious who out there uses this and what their thoughts on the product was or any feedback for that matter on it. Up until recently we were heading down the Acme Packet path, however most of our Current infrastructure is Cisco, so it kinda of makes sense to take a serious look at this. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

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