Oracle SBC or CISCO CUBE

[madhav.kumar.bhardwaj12]

Which one is better Oracle SBC or CISCO CUBE provided that we are using CUCM 11 and other CISCO UC application ? Our higher management want to deploy Microsoft Lync in future so they want to know which way will be best going forward Oracle SBC or CISCO CUBE. We are having around 160 Sites in whole APAC. What is back strategic for remote sites if WAN link goes down between remote site and main site where SBC is installed ? Should we just forward calls to their mobile phones when WAN link goes down ?

[Deepak Mehta]

I have personally used SBC 's and we do have MS lync integration.It is working well with both Avaya and Cisco PBX's.If deployed in HA pair, failover is quite easy and  preserves RTP.

Advantages

1) Robust and resillent failover and stateful RTP failover .

2) More functionality .

Disadvantage

1) More steep learning , it will take you time and resources to master however CUBE config is very similar to IOS GW config.

2) Complex configuration .

3) Expensive.

Read this for more details

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/voip/155673