What are the advantages of a NextPoint Intelliconnect MSX/SBC server Stand-alone vs. Partitioned?
Over 90% of VoIP Logic's service provider customers run their retail and wholesale peering businesses on a stand-alone MSX/SBC server. While it is possible to partition a single server or a server cluster among many, there are several reasons to choose a stand-alone MSX/SBC server as detailed below. For additional information, pricing, or a more detailed discussion please contact us.
- Root level SSH access privileges
- Advanced troubleshooting
- Track live call details during testing
- IP routing
- Call trace via command line interface (CLI)
- Call routing traces
- Call hunting traces
- Packet-traces via ethereal
- Direct access to NextPoint application
- Stopping and restarting NextPoint processes
- Access to NextPoint CLI commands
- Monitoring/Management of endpoints
- Access to import/export data into MSX DB
- Access to change global configuration parameters
- SIP Protocol parameters
- H.323 Protocol parameters
- Hunting
- Realm modification
- Direct access to raw CDR
- Access and store CDR
- Stream and FTP CDR
- Access call hunting CDR data
- Radius accounting and authorization supported
- Custom mapping of disconnect cause codes (Q.931and SIP)
- Custom mapping of call treatment codes
- ENUM Server support
- Local number portability support
- System administration
- Manage and monitor available disk-space
- Date, time and time-zone management
- SNMP
- System port usage graphs w/5 minute monitoring
- Monitor system resources (license usage, endpoint calls)
- Security
- No data overlap (endpoints, routing info)
- Ability to backup database (DB) offline
- Hardware and Software performance
- Dedicated CPU and RAM
- No competition for resources
- Easier to diagnose resource load issues
- Dedicated hot knife/media processing card
- System Alerts
- CPU Overload
- Ethernet Link State Change
- Excess Memory Allocation threshol
- Quality assured model
- NextPoint performs QA for stand-alone MSX/SB
- General Benefits of Stand-alone
- No license oversubscription – correlation of v-ports leased to v-ports available is 1:1
- Hybrid deployment
- Supports SBC functionality (Mirror Proxy) alongside Peering functionality (IP tandem switching)
- Supports Multiple Realms
- Ability to monitor QOS (requires extra licensing)
