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OpenScape Branch V1 R1
Empowering the remote branch office

Communication for the open minded

Siemens Enterprise Communications

www.siemens.com/open

Leveraging the benefits of an open architecture in a Voice over IP enterprise communication environment, the OpenScape
Branch is a SIP based appliance that dramatically empowers the remote branch offices.
OpenScape Branch assures continued of
communication services while providing a
feature rich set of survivability capabilities
at a remote branch location during the loss
or service degradation between the remote
branch and the HQ.

The OpenScape Branch solution will support two main deployment scenarios:

OpenScape Branch - Proxy

OpenScape Branch - Session Border Controller (SBC)

The OpenScape Branch is a fully RFC 3261

compliant SIP device and provides:

The OpenScape Branch provides a secure

and reliable Branch configuration by supporting:

VPN, IPSec

State of the art Firewall with Layer 7 classification (SIP and MGCP awareness)

Encrypted SIP signaling

Proxy Registrar

Encrypted management protocols

Call Routing functionality

VRRP based redundancy

The OpenScape Branch creates local resources and includes a local Media Server
for tones, announcements and conferencing reducing the bandwidth needed to provide the same resources from a remote location. This yields direct operational cost
savings.

B2BUA functionality in Survivable mode

Alternative Routing capabilities in case

of Network outages

TLS/TCP/UDP connections

Local Announcement capabilities to reduce the WAN usage

OpenScape Branch also includes a Proxy

and a Session Border Controller (SBC) functionalities and security functions like Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN). The
OpenScape Branch operates on two HW
platforms with a maximum capacity of up
to 250 and 1000 users and is fully manageable via the CMP/Assistant Management
portal.

Full Management integration in OpenScape Voice management

SBC functionality

PSTN Gateway support

Billing/CDR capabilities in Survivable

mode

OpenScape UC Geo Redundancy support

High serviceability for installation, upgrade and configuration

Voice Features
Proxy

VPN

QoS / Traffic Control

SIP Proxy Server (RFC3261)

IPSec

SIP Registrar

Key generation is based on OpenSSL

SIP Redirect/Routing Server

Miscellaneous

SIP TLS

For message digest: MD2, MD5, MDC2 ,

RMD-160, SHA, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA256, SHA-384, SHA-512

DHCP Server

Media Server for Announcements and

Conference

For encoding and Cipher: Base64 Encoding, Blowfish, CAST, CAST5, DES, TripleDES, IDEA, RC2, RC4, RC5

DNS Server/Client

NTP Server/Client

SBC

SBC Header Manipulation for topology

hiding

SIP Session aware RTP Proxy for VoIP NAT

support

Media Server for Announcements and

Conference

Survivability

Multi Line Hunt Group support

Call Forward and Call transfer

Media Server for Tones, Announcements

and Conference

CDR support

Security Features

SIP Signaling

TLS

Key generation is based on OpenSSL

For message digest: MD2, MD5, MDC2 ,

RMD-160, SHA, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA256, SHA-384, SHA-512

For encoding and Cipher: Base64 Encoding, Blowfish, CAST, CAST5, DES, TripleDES, IDEA, RC2, RC4, RC5

Management

DSCP settings for Signaling, Media and

Management traffic

Models
OpenScape Branch 250

Based on Advantech FWA710SIME

Up to 250 Users

Up to 2 calls per second

SSH2, HTTPS, sFTP

Number of announcement channels: 7

For PHP authentication CRIPT MD5 is

used with a SALT of 12 chars

Number of conferences: 3

Physical Dimension (W x H x D): 252 x 44

x 167 mm (9.9 x 1.7 x 6.6)

Power: 65W, 100 ~ 240 V AC input

Firewall

Management / Alarming
Features

Stateful inspection Firewall NAT/PAT supporting:

The OpenScape Branch supports the following Management Interfaces

OpenScape Branch 1000

Intrusion detection

Protocols DNS, FTP, SSH,TELNET, HTTPS,

HTTP, NTP, SNMP

SOAP based Openscape UC CMP/Assistant GUI

Local PHP based WebGUI

SW download via sFTP

Based on IBM x3250 M2

SNMP support

Up to 1000 Users

Up to 5 calls per second

Number of announcement channels: 28

Number of conferences: 12

Physical Dimension (W x H x D): 440 x

44.5 x 559 mm (17.3 x 1.75 x 22.0)

Power: 351 W, 100~127 / 200~240 V AC

input

Strict TCP Validation to ensure TCP session state enforcement, validation of

sequence and acknowledgement numbers, rejection of bad TCP flag
combinations

General Features

TCP reassembly for fragmented packet

protection

Routing

Malformed packet protections

Static Routes

Protocol anomaly protection

Source-based routing

VRRP support

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Communications GmbH & Co. KG
Siemens Enterprise
Communications GmbH & Co. KG
is a Trademark Licensee of Siemens AG
Hofmannstr. 51, D-80200 Munich; 05/2009
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Communication for the open minded

Siemens Enterprise Communications
www.siemens.com/open

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