Peering and the Session Border Controller Impact of Applications in Peering Technology

BroadBand International Group, LLC Peering Concepts Relationships Client/Provider Provider/Provider Client/Client Interconnection Architectures VoIP Peering is not dependent on traditional Network Peering Points for IP Traffic Currency of Interconnection VoIP Peering is independent of traditional regulatory PSTN economies

BroadBand International Group, LLC Quality of Service “QoS” Trusted vs. Best Efforts Session based Accounting Application based Peering Flow based Routing

BroadBand International Group, LLC Service Oriented Architecture “SOA” As the emergence of “SOA” impacts applications demand for QoS and new settlement methods will drive the economics of peering Session Boarder Controllers – as a statefull level of service will always be expensive Flow based routing and MPLS Core networks will lead to a more scaleable Peering economy

BroadBand International Group, LLC Session Border Controller The SBC allows for an Application Based peering agreement to take place The SBC allows for better accounting and security within the “Trusted” network State-full packet inspection is expensive and will tend to stay at the edge of “Trusted” networks

BroadBand International Group, LLC Service Layers Application Peering IP Services Service Discovery - enum Location Addressing Signaling Transport Note: from CableLabs Voip Peering RFI

BroadBand International Group, LLC Reference Materials ISP Survival Guide John Wiley & Sons, ISBN Quality of Service John Wiles & Sons, ISBN Cablelabs VoIP Peering – RFI VoiPeer -

BroadBand International Group, LLC Questions Mark S. Hewitt CEO/CTO BroadBand International Group, LLC Trusted Third Party Settlement