Hot off the press (as of July 2015) is v5 of Sonus’ SBC 1k/2k firmware, and its “Third Party Presence” feature. I covered the new features in my last post, but wanted to particularly highlight this one as it’s quite ground-breaking. I think the potential for this is vast: *any* call that’s going through the …
It’s been not 9 months since the last major upgrade to the Sonus SBC 1k/2k family. v4 came out late last year and I wrote of its benefits in early December, in particular the shedding of the Java requirement for the real-time monitor. Now v5 has landed, and it’s perhaps as impressive a leap as …
New to the Sonus SBC 1000 and SBC 2000 is the ability to perform a Partial Import of another gateway’s configuration. As it says on-screen “Existing Logical Interfaces, Ethernet Ports, VLANs, MST Instances, ACLs, Static Routes, ASM Networking, Link Monitor, NAT, IPsec Tunnels, Node-Level Settings and Certificate configurations won’t be modified. All other configurations will …
The AD lookup feature in the Sonus SBC is an incredibly powerful and often under-utilised feature. I’ve written of it before, and my peer Luca Vitali has posted another example of its usefulness this week. That led to a Twitter conversation and what might yet turn into a bit of a competition to see who …
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One of the significant edges that the Sonus SBC 1k/2k (nee UX 1000 and UX 2000) voice gateways / Session Border Controllers have over the competition is the real-time visibility of calls. You can sit back and watch them as they delicately twinkle into existence and later clear, or have your adrenalin rush as you …
If you’re ever trying to debug a Sonus / NET / Quintum Tenor gateway, you’ll not get far by relying on Config Manager’s “Call Log” view. When you’re ready to get serious, Telnet to the gateway and issue these commands: ev l3 sproto Enables Level 3 logging of all the SIP messaging ev l3 ch …
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Following on from my recent script set-uxfxscountry-ps1, here’s another quick script that uses Vik Jaswal’s great PowerShell module for the Sonus SBC1000 & 2000 gateways. This one queries and displays on-screen the current logging level set in the gateway and lets you change the level of ALL of the components to a new value. I …
I recently encountered a strange problem where calls to certain test numbers stopped working as expected after we’d commissioned a new Sonus PSTN Gateway for Lync (in this case an SBC1k running 3.0.2 b271 firmware) “upstream” from the PABX. If you called ”127 22123” from the PABX, the call just rang and rang without answer …
Been here before? Know the deal? Jump to the revision history to see what’s in the latest update. … or go straight to the Downloads. The name’s a bit of a mouthful, but “Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1” takes the backup file from your Ribbon/Sonus SBC/UX 1000 or 2000 gateway and creates a new Word document, with all …
Here’s a script from the quick & dirty category. Worthy of publishing, but not something I’m going to get around to polishing up to be all-singing and all-dancing. “Set-UxFxsCountry.ps1” uses Vik Jaswal’s fantastic PowerShell module for the Sonus UX/SBC family of gateways to automate what I reckon has to be the most tedious task of …