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A setback to VoIP and Video telephony adoption has been the restriction NATs and firewalls pose to reliable call completion. NATs and firewalls play a very important role in securing and enhancing the usability of internal networks, however impose significant problems in setting up VoIP calls between end users.
IETF standards STUN, TURN and ICE were developed to address the NAT traversal problem.
STUN helps VoIP end-points to:
- discover whether they are behind a NAT/firewall, and if so,
- to determine the public IP address and type of the firewall.
STUN then uses this information to assist in establishing peer-to-peer VoIP or video telephony calls.
While STUN is effective in addressing the NAT issue with most consumer NAT devices (routers), it doesn't work effectively for many corporate networks. TURN, which stands for Traversal Using Relay NAT, addresses this by providing a fallback NAT traversal technique using a media relay server to facilitate media transport between end-points.
ICE is a framework that leverages both STUN and TURN to provide reliable VoIP or video call set-up and media transport, through a SIP offer/answer model for end-points to exchange multiple candidate IP addresses and ports (such as private addresses and TURN server addresses).
Eyeball Networks patented AnyFirewall Technology is at the core of several Eyeball products that utilize the STUN, TURN and ICE standards, and our
AnyFirewall Engine and
AnyFirewall Server are the reference software for PacketCable 2.0 certification.
Other benefits to Eyeball Networks implementation of the STUN, TURN and ICE standards are:
- Guaranteed 100% call completion
- Peer-to-peer for services scalable to 50M + subscribers
- No compromise in NAT/firewall security
- Easy integration with existing VoIP products and services
- Standards based for maximum interoperability
- Massive scalability for carrier-class implementations
- Media delivery in UDP networks
Eyeball has several products that exploit the advantages of STUN, TURN, ICE to deliver reliable VoIP and video telephony services, including:
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