Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Configuration Guide: Unified Model
Preface

Table Of Contents

Preface

Document Revision History

Objectives

Intended Audience

Organization

Related Documentation

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router Documentation

Cisco IOS XE Release 2 Software Publications

Cisco IOS Release 12.2SR Software Publications

Document Conventions

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Preface


This preface describes the objectives and organization of this document and explains how to find additional information on related products and services. This preface contains the following sections:

Document Revision History

Objectives

Intended Audience

Organization

Related Documentation

Document Conventions

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Document Revision History

The Document Revision History records technical changes to this document. The table shows the software release number and document revision number for the change, the date of the change, and a brief summary of the change.

Release No.
Revision
Date
Change Summary

2.4

01

June 26, 2009

This document introduced the unified model and a new unified feature set on the Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition). See the Feature History Table in each chapter for supported features.

The name Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) replaced the Integrated Session Border Controller name.

2.5

02

November 25, 2009

H.323 support, H.323-SIP interworking features, H.323 call routing, Transcoding support, multiple SIP features, 100rel interworking, SIP IP-FQDN URI translation, Contact Username Passthrough, IP Realm support, customized offer for late-to-early media, regular expression based routing, support for external server, call duration monitoring, signaling congestion handling, and other features were added in this release. See the Feature History Table in each chapter for supported features.


Objectives

This document describes the Integrated Session Border Controller functions, features, restrictions, and configuration tasks for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide to all of the software features that can be run using the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers, but only the Integrated Session Border Controller software specific to these Routers.

For information on general Cisco IOS software features that are also available on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers, see the feature module or the technology guide for that software feature.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for the following people:

Experienced service provider administrators

Cisco telecommunications management engineers

Customers who use and manage Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers

Organization

This document contains the following chapters and appendixes:

Section
Title

Chapter 1

Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Overview

Chapter 2

Configuring Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition)

Chapter 3

Unexpected Source Address Alerting

Chapter 4

Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Redundancy—High Availability Support

Chapter 5

Implementing Interworking DTMF

Chapter 6

Media Address Pools

Chapter 7

Fax Support

Chapter 8

Implementing Multi-VRF on Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition)

Chapter 9

Implementing Adjacencies on Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition)

Chapter 10

Inherit Profiles for Non-IMS Adjacencies

Chapter 11

Implementing Billing on Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition)

Chapter 12

Implementing Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Policies

Chapter 13

Implementing Firewall Traversal and NAT

Chapter 14

Secure Media and SRTP Passthrough

Chapter 15

Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Registration Features

Chapter 16

SIP Profiles on Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition)

Chapter 17

Implementing QoS (Marking)

Chapter 18

Codec Handling, page 1

Chapter 19

Implementing SBC Transcoding

Chapter 20

Call Duration Monitoring

Chapter 21

Signaling Congestion Handling

Chapter 22

SIP Tel URI Support

Chapter 23

SIP Timer

Chapter 24

Tracking Policy Failure Statistics

Chapter 25

SIP 3xx Redirect Responses

Chapter 26

SIP Call Hold

Chapter 27

SIP Call Transfer

Chapter 28

SIP Outbound Authentication

Chapter 29

SIP Inbound Authentication

Chapter 30

SIP Configuration Flexibility

Chapter 31

Late-to-Early Media Interworking

Chapter 32

Early Media

Chapter 33

DoS Prevention and Dynamic Blacklisting

Chapter 34

H.323 Support

Chapter 35

H.323 to SIP Interworking

Chapter 36

P-CSCF Support

Chapter 37

IP Realm Support

Chpater 38

SIP Instant Messaging

Chapter 39

Integration of Resource Management and SIP

Chapter 40

IBCF Processing Support

Chapter 41

SIP Renegotiation

Chapter 42

SDP Bandwidth Field Features

Chapter 43

Configuring SIP SDP Attribute Passthrough

Chapter 44

SIP IP-FQDN URI Translation

Chapter 45

Interoperability for SIP INVITE Authentication

Chapter 46

100rel Interworking Support

Chapter 47

Implementing SNMP

Appendix A

End-to-End Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Configuration Example

Appendix B

Additional Information about Billing Support

Appendix C

Syslog Capabilities

Appendix D

SIP Compliance and Interoperability

Glossary

Glossary

Index

Index


Related Documentation

This section refers you to other documentation that might also be useful as you configure your Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers. The documentation listed below is available on Cisco.com.

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router Documentation

For information on Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) commands, see the Cisco Unified Border Element (SP Edition) Command Reference: Unified Model at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/sbc/command/reference/sbcu_book.html

For information on new Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router commands and commands in existing Cisco IOS features, see the Cisco IOS command reference books on Cisco.com for this release. For information about Cisco IOS commands in general, you can also use the Command Lookup Tool at http://tools.cisco.com/Support/CLILookup or a Cisco IOS master commands list.

For Quick Start guides and installation documentation for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router, see the hardware documentation that was provided as a part of this release at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9343/prod_installation_guides_list.html.

For information on new software features, see the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Software Configuration Guide, new feature module documents, and the Cisco IOS XE release notes that were provided as part of this release.

For further information, see the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Documentation Roadmap at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/Routers/asr1000/roadmap/asr1000rm.html#wp39059.

Cisco IOS XE Release 2 Software Publications

Documentation for Cisco IOS XE configuration guides and feature modules can be found at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9587/tsd_products_support_configure.html

Cisco IOS Release 12.2SR Software Publications

Documentation for the related Cisco IOS Release 12.2SR, including command reference and system error messages, can be found at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6922/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

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