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Avaya Aura AS5300

The Avaya Aura Application Server 5300 or Avaya Aura AS5300 in telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

and computer networking is a secure Unified Communications (UC)

Unified communications

Unified communications is the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging , presence information, telephony , video conferencing, data sharing , call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as unified...

system designed and manufactured by Avaya

Avaya

Avaya Inc. is a privately held computer networking, information technology and telecommunications company that is a global provider of business communications systems. The international head quarters is in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States...

. The system provides integrated IP telephony, conferencing, voice mail and instant messaging - all centered around dynamic presence - that meets, US Department of Defense (DoD)

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

and US federal government security and service assurance requirements. The AS5300 is used for creating, modifying, and terminating two-party (unicast) or multiparty (multicast) media streams, supporting up to 25,000 subscribers per system.

The Avaya Aura AS5300 is a SIP-based session manager designed to increase productivity and collaboration by allowing users to collaborate using the appropriate tool (instant messaging, chat, voice, video, file transfer, web collaboration, etc.) all in an integrated solution. The AS5300 supports the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Session Initiation Protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...

, Assured Services Session Initiation Protocol (AS-SIP), Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

Secure Real-time Transport Protocol

The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol defines a profile of RTP , intended to provide encryption, message authentication and integrity, and replay protection to the RTP data in both unicast and multicast applications...

, Session Description protocol (SDP) Security Descriptions for Media Streams (SDESC), Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Transport Layer Security

Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...

, Nortel encrypted UNIStim

UNIStim

UNIStim is a Telecommunications protocol developed by Nortel for IP Phone and IP PBX communications....

, Multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) and ANSI PRI Multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP) T1.619a.

The AS5300 encrypts both the voice conversation and the signaling setup to create a secure voice over IP (VoIP) environment.

AS5300 Compatibility

The AS5300 can connect with the following systems to support digital

Digital signal

A digital signal is a physical signal that is a representation of a sequence of discrete values , for example of an arbitrary bit stream, or of a digitized analog signal...

, analog

Analog signal

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...

, and other phone technologies during migration to Voice over Internet Protocol.

Avaya Communication Server 2100

Avaya Communication Server 1000

AS5300 History

Release 1.0 of AS5300 became commercially available in September 2008.
- In May 2009, AS5300 R1.0 passed the U.S. Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) testing for PBX1 and PBX2 certification.

Release 2.0 of the AS5300 became commercially available in August 2010.
- Release 2.0 of the AS5300 passed the U.S. Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) testing for Local Session Controller (LSC) certification.
- Release 2.0 of the AS5300 approved for Classified Voice
- Release 2.0 of the AS5300 approved for Classified Video

IP Phones & Video Phones Compatibility

The Avaya Aura AS5300 supports both hard and soft Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Session Initiation Protocol

clients.

1165E
1140E
1120E
1120SA (special use, CNSS
Committee on National Security Systems
The Committee on National Security Systems is a United States intergovernmental organization that sets policy for the security of the US security systems.-Charter, mission, and leadership:...

Class-A and Class-B Certified)
- For use in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF)
  Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
  In United States security and intelligence parlance, a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process Sensitive Compartmented Information level classified information...
- TSG-6 certified
- NSA & NTSWG certified
IP Video Phone 1535 (Videotelephony
Videotelephony
Videotelephony comprises the technologies for the reception and transmission of audio-video signals by users at different locations, for communication between people in real-time....

)
AS5300 Soft Client
Sectéra vIPer Phone
Sectéra Secure Module
Sectéra is a family of secure voice and data communications products made by General Dynamics C4 Systems which are approved by the United States National Security Agency...

AS 5300 Security Capabilities

AS5300 SIP session signaling is secured with TLS.
Mutual authentication of SIP endpoint and session server is ensured with TLS Handshake protocol.
Confidentiality and integrity of SIP message payloads are accomplished via the TLS Record protocol
Media payload is secured with SRTP (RFC 3711)using the following ciphers:
- AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80
- AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_32
- F8_128_HMAC_SHA1_80
Security descriptions for media streams (RFC 4568)
AS5300 is PKI compatible and supports X.509 certificates
Certificate management system including importing, key generation, verification (RFC 3280) and certificate revocation
Security administrator role
HTTP interfaces secured with TLS
System administration interfaces for Network Element and Subscriber and Provisioning are GR-815 compliant, including password complexity, mandatory change default password, password aging and failed authentication lockout
Anti-virus support
Access control list
File system integrity tool

Unique Government & Military Features

IPv6
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
Encrypted SIP
Secure SIP Collaboration
Secure SIP Conferencing
Secure encrypted IM
Media and Signaling Encryption
Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption (MLPP) or Executive barge-in
The AS5300 is Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certified.

To comply with the NSA Suite B requirements and to integrate pre-approved FIPS 140-2

FIPS 140-2

The Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2, , is a U.S. government computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules. The title is Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules...

validated modules into the AS5300 uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and Security Builder GSE technology from Certicom now acquired by RIM

Research In Motion

Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...

enabling security and encryption requirements that meet the DoD and other government requirements for classified communications and unclassified but sensitive communications.
The Application Server 5300 (AS5300) is both Multi-Function Soft Switch (MFSS) and Local Session Controller (LSC) capability within the Department of Defense Unified Capabilities Architecture.

External links

Avaya Application Server 5300 -Retrieved 27 July 2011
Nortel Delivers UC For Government -Broken
AS5300 Brief -Retrieved 27 July 2011
AS5300 Technical Documentation Avaya Support -Retrieved 27 July 2011
Unified Communications Featured Article -Retrieved 27 July 2011
Nortel Using Certicom Security Technology VoIP News -Retrieved 27 July 2011
Certicom Helps Nortel Secure Unified Communications for U.S. Federal Government Agencies TMC Net -Retrieved 27 July 2011
Nortel Government Solutions, Inc. Business Week -Retrieved 27 July 2011

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