The S3 Session Border Controller (SBC) from Genband (now part of Ribbon Communications) is a carrier-grade, high-performance platform designed to secure, manage, and optimize real-time communications across IP networks. It serves as the critical control point between service provider, enterprise, and customer networks, protecting VoIP and multimedia traffic from threats while ensuring interoperability between disparate signaling and media protocols.
Built for scalability and reliability, the S3 platform supports massive concurrent session volumes and is engineered for 99.999% uptime, making it ideal for telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, and large enterprises. It delivers robust features including SIP normalization, topology hiding, DoS/DDoS protection, media transcoding, QoS enforcement, and policy-based routing.
The S3’s modular software architecture allows deployment on dedicated hardware appliances or virtualized environments, integrating seamlessly into next-generation networks (NGN) and IMS architectures. Its intuitive management interface and advanced analytics provide administrators with deep visibility into session performance and network health.
Whether deployed in the core, edge, or cloud, Genband’s S3 SBC continues to be a trusted solution for enabling secure, interoperable, and high-quality voice and video communications in today’s evolving IP landscape.