Overview

Patton’s™ Virtual SmartNode (vSN) delivers the features you need for advanced voice network applications that need to be easily scaled up and down. At the same time, it eliminates hardware limitations which are required for the performance of the application.
The Virtual SmartNode provides the comprehensive feature set needed for you as an enterprise or service provider looking to virtualize your infrastructure.
Secure your VoIP infrastructure by encrypting signaling streams using the Virtual SmartNode.
DoS prevention, trust peer, toll fraud prevention, stateful firewall QoS, voice quality assessment and monitoring and much more, is part of the virtualized Patton SmartNode* as well as IP routing, including IPv4 and IPv6 networking features.
SmartNodes are the leading and field proven CPEs running Patton Proprietary OS. The same, feature rich software used on the purpose build hardware devices, can also be used in virtual environments for a high level of scalability and service availability.

Applications

The Virtual SmartNode is designed to run in virtualized enterprise networks, telephony service provider datacenters, cloud provider infrastructure, etc. Addressing varying call capacity needs from clients can easily be done, scaling up and down the required licenses on the virtual SmartNode using a floating license model through the Patton Cloud. The Patton Cloud automatically distributes the obtained licenses to where they are needed (vSN and other Patton devices).
This enables you to easily scale up/down SBC services on Virtual SmartNodes but also on regular SmartNode devices.
Virtual SmartNode functional principle

Use Cases
Virtual SmartNode acting as SBC in SIP Trunking application

Application details:

• • Usual eSBC features delivered to SME

 

• • LAN telephony protection

 

• • Service demarcation

 

• • SIP normalization

 

• • Quality of service

 

• • Survivability

 

• • Conversion:
    • • SIP IPv4 to IPv6

     

    • • SIP UDP to TCP

     

    • • SIP TLS to UDP

     

 

Benefits:

• • • Harmonized installation

 

• • • No need for pCPE (purpose-built CPE)

 

• • • Simplified installation

 

• • • Scalable, flexible, reliable

 

• • • High availability through virtualized hardware

 

Virtual SmartNode acting as SBC in Hosted PBX application

Application details:

• • Service demarcation

 

• • SIP normalization & Interop

 

• • Quality of service

 

• • Survivability Multi WAN

 

• • Station to station calling WAN outage

 

• • Conversion:
    • • SIP IPv4 to IPv6

     

    • • SIP UDP to TCP

     

    • • SIP TLS to UDP

     

 

Benefits:

• • Harmonized installation

 

• • No need for pCPE (purpose-built CPE)

 

• • Simplified installation

 

• • Scalable, flexible, reliable

 

• • High availability through virtualized hardware

 

Virtual SmartNode acting as IP Access Router

Application details:

• • Multi WAN link support & management

 

• • Load balancing

 

• • Survivability

 

• • High availability (HA)

 

• • Network address translation (NAT) & network address and port translation (NAPT)

 

• • DHCP server

 

• • Access control list (ACL)

 

• • IPv6 support

 

• • VRRP, GRE, RIP, BGP, etc.

 

Benefits:

• • Simple & automated setup

 

• • Scalable You define the CPU and memory

 

• • Flexible Adapts to customer needs

 

• • Add/remove features as needed

 

• • Central management through Patton Cloud

 

Virtual SmartNode acting as VPN Server

Application details:

• • Secure remote workers, remote offices integration

 

• • VPN links termination & aggregation IPsec (Client Side only*), OpenVPN

 

• • Access to main office infrastructure (printers, servers, etc.)

 

• • Multi WAN link support & management

 

• • Access right management

 

Benefits:

• • Simple setup

 

• • Scalable You define the CPU and memory

 

• • Flexible Adapts to customer needs

 

• • Add/remove features as needed

 

• • Central management through Patton Cloud

 

 

Virtual SmartNode acting as IPv4 to IPv6 Network Gateway

Application details:

• • IPv4 to IPv6 interop

 

• • WAN LAN network separation

 

• • Access control list (ACL)

 

• • Multi access link management (IPv4 or IPv6)

 

• • Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6

 

• • DHCPv4 & v6

 

• • Various routing protocol support

 

Benefits:

• • Simple setup

 

• • Scalable You define the CPU and memory

 

• • Flexible Adapts to customer needs

 

• • Add/remove features as needed

 

• • Central management through Patton Cloud