At the network edge
- SHAKEN/STIR compliant
- Separates valid from invalid calls
- Sits in front of your switches and SBCs
- Asks the ICP routing policy engine about every call
Edge Load Balancer (ELB)
Intelligent Edge: the SIP load balancer that knows every call type.
Intelligent Edge sits in front of your switches and SBCs and asks the ICP routing policy engine where each call type belongs, so every port carries the traffic it is meant for. Add Network Defender and fraud, robocalls and attacks stop there too.
- Role
- SIP load balancer at the edge
- Works with
- The ICP routing policy engine
- Option
- Network Defender
- Deployment
- On-premise or in CoreVoice Cloud
Why it exists
The piece left over once routing, rates and quality are done.
Once customers and vendors are set up, rate decks analyzed, routing policies defined and quality alarms in place, one piece is still missing if you want to maximize quality, revenue, traffic volume or margin: an intelligent load balancer in the network.
A plain load balancer spreads traffic. Intelligent Edge is port-aware across your entire network footprint and asks the routing policy engine how, and where, each call should go - so it can protect the network and optimize switch and SBC port utilization at the same time.
GCS built it with existing carrier customers, working with them to deploy, test and refine it, and calls it the keystone for optimizing a voice traffic business.
Call types
Every call goes to the ports built for it.
Because it talks to the routing policy engine, Intelligent Edge knows what kind of call it is looking at before the call reaches a switch.
It distributes calls by type and by origin, so short duration traffic, retail and plain wholesale each land on the right ports.
- Inbound
- Outbound
- A# origination
- U.S.
- International
- LNP
- MNP
- LCADs
- Local
- Valid / invalid
- Short duration
- Retail
- Wholesale
Network Defender option
Stop the loss at the edge, before it becomes a cost.
Fraud found at reconciliation has already been paid for. Intelligent Edge keeps invalid calls off your ports, and the Network Defender option blocks fraud and attacks before they access your network.
Port utilization
- Port-aware across the entire network footprint
- Distributes calls by type and origin
- Keeps short duration traffic on its own ports
- Optimizes switch and SBC port utilization
Network Defender
- Blocks fraud, robocalls and bad traffic before it enters
- Protection against DoS/DDoS and SIP-based attacks
- AI-driven anomaly detection for unusual traffic
- Geo-blocking and IP reputation management
- Automated alerting and mitigation
Products
The platform behind the edge.
Common platform
Interconnect Command Platform
The platform every call runs through. ICP-Route decides where each call goes and ICP-Rate rates, bills and settles it, on one set of data from vendor rate sheet to invoice.
Learn more about ICP
Module
iRAS
Automates every step of vendor rate management - ingesting, analyzing and transforming rate sheets for your routing and rating engines - and aligns new vendor rates with customer pricing.
Learn more about iRAS
Option
CoreVoice Cloud
The full GCS portfolio hosted in GCS data centers and powered by the patented routing engine, with usage-based pricing and no hardware, servers or installation on your side.
Learn more about CoreVoice Cloud
Further reading
More on the network edge.
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