AudioCodes Mediant Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) vs. Devart ODBC Driver

The E-SBC works well in situations where you are working with multiple carriers and/or multiple phone systems and need to route either by IP, sender info or inbound phone numbers.

I find that companies that require faxing to go through the E-SBC seem to be a little less stable than competitor devices.

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It is appropriate in all scenarios. It is perfect to connect with the database. Actually, nothing to dislike in functionality and performance. It is stand-alone and doesn't need any additional application to be installed.

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• different sip trunk profiles for each provider
• secure tls connection to for Microsoft Direct Routing
• high availability on each SBC and also on Azure or AWS

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• Far less connection failures. We had a lot of failures with the tool that we were using before.
• High performance and new features are really useful. Direct mode connectivity seems to make the difference that was very much needed.
• Works very well with Oracle Database 10g.

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• I believe the help files need to have more information about why certain options should be used rather than just a list of possible choices. Some choices obviously require a wealth of information or experience, but having just a bit more info in the help file would save research time.
• I'd like to see a user side option to be able to ping and trace route testing without having to be in another admin interface.
• The message log function is great for watching SIP packets stream but needs more options for pausing to capture when there are a lot of calls coming through.
• In my opinion, the route tables & configurations for proxies and groups need some massaging. The normal config options could be placed on one screen and then have a choice to go to "extended" mode for less-used items. This would make implementation faster as there are so many options now that it can be hard to see the few that are needed for general configuration.
• I would love to see a screen that would allow the formation of a "SIP Ladder" where you could enter a source and/or destination IP and have the gateway show you the communication rather than pouring through logs. This is something that various carriers and even Wireshark are doing now but it would be great to have this option from the gateway's perspective as it would make it easier to compare with the outside traffic diagrams without having a senior network tech having to help.

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• User Interface could be better.
• Error Messages and error handling could be improved to be more relevant and specific.
• Availability.

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Support has been great so far but still, it could be better.

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AudioCodes is easier to implement and has a better support for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing implementation.

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Devart Driver ODBC for MySQL is best with no known issues. It is stand-alone. It supports SSH/SSL communication. supports HTTP / HTTPS tunneling. It is available for a variety of operating systems like Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is available for 32-bit and 64-bit environments. It supports all renowned programming languages. it supports multiple languages. It allows various data types.

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• Positive - My company has been able to retain business due to the low cost of the AudioCodes devices when compared to the other brands that some customers purchase through other vendors.
• Positive - RMA is easy when it appears a card or module might be at issue, AudioCodes support is speedy to replace which grows customer confidence.
• The ability to order, assemble, configure and ship multiple units to replace aged or failing gateways allowed us to impress the customer and gain more business.
• The reliability of the devices with very lengthy up-time and little to no reboots has impressed customers greatly.

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• Our organization has been largely moving into agile development life cycle and continuous integration is a key towards agile success. Automation is the first step towards continuous integration. We are really happy using Devart as a part of our automation engineering. It definitely contributes towards overall success.
• We are trying to extend the usage. The development team has also shown interest towards the usage.
• This is a cost effective tool. It is worth the price.

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