Sonus Demystifies Cloud Myths with Cloud-Optimized Portfolio

SINGAPORE – Sonus Networks, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SONS), a global leader in
secure and intelligent Cloud communications, today introduced enhancements
to its comprehensive Cloud solution with Cloud-optimized versions of its PSX
and EMS, a microservices architecture for the SBC SWe and innovative integrated
analytics. With these new capabilities, Sonus dispels common competitive Cloud
myths and provides customers with a real-world solution that is optimized for
the Cloud.

Comprehensive Approach
to Cloud Communications

With
a Cloud-optimized SBC, PSX and EMS, service providers can instantiate virtual
policy and routing control as well as virtual session management in a tested
Sonus NFV Orchestration Partner environment. In addition, Sonus delivers
solutions for geographic redundancy, high availability and load balancing across
multiple virtual network functions (VNFs) in a cluster, providing robust solution
reliability.

Microservices
Architecture Maximizes the Benefits of the Cloud

By
taking advantage of its SBC’s fundamental design, Sonus has separated signaling,
media processing and transcoding into individual components. As customers
migrate RTC to the Cloud, Sonus’ architecture enables independent orchestration
and scaling of each SBC microservice based on network traffic. Unlike solutions
which only provide redundancy for signaling, Sonus’ microservices architecture
is truly redundant, delivering high availability for all three microservices.

Integrated Analytics
Enhances Solution Management

With
this release, Sonus supplies an embedded data agent in each VNF instance that communicates
traffic and utilization information to an integrated data warehouse and
analytics solution. This integration enables automatic on-demand VNF
management, optimizes resource utilization at the microservices level, and provides
advanced monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.

Quotes:

“There
are vendors promoting myths when it comes to real-time communications, claiming
that since their products are virtualized, they work seamlessly in the Cloud,”
said Kevin Riley, Sonus CTO and SVP, engineering and operations. “Sonus focuses on addressing the practical realities of deploying
Cloud-optimized products.  We architected a robust solution that runs
seamlessly in the Cloud and delivers scale, reliability and feature capability
on par with our hardware-based offers. Unlike our competitors, Sonus provides
customers with a complete, real-world solution, making real-time communications
in the Cloud a reality.”

“Our
research indicates that layer 4-7 services are prime candidates to be converted
to virtual network functions (VNFs) in carrier networks,” said Scott
Raynovich, VP of Research and Analysis, SDxCentral. “Sonus has done a
great job architecting its Cloud-optimized solutions, helping carriers to quickly
provision and scale new services, accelerating their move to the Cloud.”