About This Guide

The Release Notes describe new features, enhancements, supported platforms, upgrade paths, limitations, known issues, resolved issues, and caveats for the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC).

Documentation Set

The following table describes the documentation set for this release.

ACLI Configuration Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for configuring, administering, and troubleshooting the E-SBC.

ACLI Reference Guide

Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.

Administrative Security Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for supporting the Admin Security, Admin Security with ACP, and JITC feature sets on the E-SBC.

Call Traffic Monitoring Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for configuration using the tools and protocols required to manage call traffic on the E-SBC.

FIPS Compliance Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information about FIPS compliance on the E-SBC.

HMR Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for header manipulation. Includes rules, use cases, configuration, import, export, and examples.

Installation and Platform Preparation Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for system provisioning, software installations, and upgrades.

Release Notes

Contains information about this release, including platform support, new features, caveats, known issues, and limitations.

SBC Family Security Guide

Contains information about security considerations and best practices from a network and application security perspective for the Oracle Communications Session Delivery Product family of products.

Time Division Multiplexing Guide

Contains the concepts and procedures necessary for installing, configuring, and administering Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) on the Acme Packet 1100 and the Acme Packet 3900.

Web GUI User Guide

Contains conceptual and procedural information for using the tools and features of the E-SBC Web GUI.

Related Documentation

The following list describes related documentation for the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller. You can find the listed documents on http://docs.oracle.com/en/industries/communications/ in the "Session Border Controller Documentation" and "Acme Packet" sections.

Document Name	Document Description
Acme Packet 3900 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 3900.
Acme Packet 4600 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 4600.
Acme Packet 6100 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6100.
Acme Packet 6300 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6300.
Acme Packet 6350 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6350.
Release Notes	Contains information about the current documentation set release, including new features and management changes.
ACLI Configuration Guide	Contains information about the administration and software configuration of the Service Provider Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller.
ACLI Reference Guide	Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide	Contains information about Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller logs, performance announcements, system management, inventory management, upgrades, working with configurations, and managing backups and archives.
MIB Reference Guide	Contains information about Management Information Base (MIBs), Oracle Communication's enterprise MIBs, general trap information, including specific details about standard traps and enterprise traps, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) GET query information (including standard and enterprise SNMP GET query names, object identifier names and numbers, and descriptions), examples of scalar and table objects.
Accounting Guide	Contains information about the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller’s accounting support, including details about RADIUS and Diameter accounting.
HDR Resource Guide	Contains information about the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller’s Historical Data Recording (HDR) feature. This guide includes HDR configuration and system-wide statistical information.
Administrative Security Essentials	Contains information about the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller’s support for its Administrative Security license.
SBC Family Security Guide	Contains information about security considerations and best practices from a network and application security perspective for the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller family of products.
Installation and Platform Preparation Guide	Contains information about upgrading system images and any pre-boot system provisioning.
Call Traffic Monitoring Guide	Contains information about traffic monitoring and packet traces as collected on the system. This guide also includes WebGUI configuration used for the SIP Monitor and Trace application.
HMR Resource Guide	Contains information about configuring and using Header Manipulation Rules to manage service traffic.
TSCF SDK Guide	Contains information about the client-side SDK that facilitates the creation of secure tunnels between a client application and the TSCF of the OCSBC.
REST API Guide	Contains information about the supported REST APIs and how to use the REST API interface.

Revision History

December 2018	Initial Release
January 2019	Updated for S-Cz8.2.0p2. Updated the "Small Footprint VNF" New Feature with the correct spec for required RAM.
February 2019	Updates "Transcoding Support" for accuracy. Updates the "Provisioning Transcode Codec Sessions Capacities" caveat for clarity. Updates "Virtual Network Function (VNF) Limitations".
March 2019	Adds "Maintain DSA-Based HDR and CDR Push Behavior" to "Upgrade and Downgrade Caveats". Updates "Default VNF Resources" for accuracy. Removes T.140-Baudot Relay from the list of features unsupported with Pooled Transcoding. Updates processor specification requirements for VNFs Updates VNF Caveats with IXGBE driver limitation.
April 2019	Updated for S-Cz8.2.0p3. Corrected the list of platforms supported for virtual MSRP. Updates Transcoding caveats with Local Media Playback incompatibility. Corrects "Transcoding Support" table. Adds explanation of change in HMR matching.
May 2019	Updates minimum vSBC signaling core requirement to 2 Adds MSRP to list of features in the "Encryption for Virtual SBC" table. Adds Performance Enhancements section to New Features list.
June 2019	Adds OCOM incompatibility with IPv6 to known issues.
October 2019	Updates the Known Issues table.
November 2019	Adds trace tool limitations to "Trace Tools" caveats. Adds VLAN tagging caveat to "Virtual Network Function (VNF) Caveats."
December 2019	Updates closed Known Issues
February 2020	Adds telephone-event to supported codecs list for VNF
July 2020	Moves bug# 22322673 to Non-present Known Issues table. Repairs confusing known issue on IPv6 and VLANs