[VOIPSEC] RES: TEKELEC SBCs

[ANDRE LUIZ CABRAL DUTRA]

Jeri, John,

T6000 is the one mentioned at the comparison pdf i´ve gotten at Voip news
and its not knew (2006). Thanks for the making things crystal clear :-))

André


2008/8/11, John Osmon <josmon at rigozsaurus.com>:
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Jiri Kuthan wrote:
> > Well, I'm not unbiased either, as iptel is a fully owned TKLC subsidiary
> :-)
> > Anyhow, I suppose this is a reference to the product known formerly as
> > "t6000"
> > which is genband's now. Tekelec produces no SBCs. For the initial
> question,
> > how the GenBand product is, I have unfortunately no answer.
>
> The T6000 is now the M6.  The SBCs for the M6 are designed specifically
> as an application layer gateway (ALG) for the M6.  They used to be
> called "voice firewalls" until someone decided they needed to be
> called SBCs (opinion only!).  They are not general purpose SBCs.
>
> They're fine for the ALG work for which they were designed, and are
> the key to being able to scale the platform -- but I wouldn't really
> lump them in with other SBCs.
>