StarLeaf Telepresence Border Controller
Trusted route for all telepresence calls
Be assured of a secure and safe connection for all telepresence calls entering your organization. Designed to work with any firewall, the StarLeaf Telepresence Border Controller is paired with the StarLeaf Telepresence PBX to seamlessly enable calls to and from the outside world.
Extend collaboration for home workers and business partners
The StarLeaf Telepresence Border Controller makes all face-to-face communication with external organizations, customers, partners and remote workers transparent. It enables out-bound and in-bound calls between any external StarLeaf Telepresence and standards-based H.323 video endpoints. With StarLeaf remote workers are assigned an internal extension number–making location irrelevant and visual communication for all parties as straightforward as using a phone.
Business-to-business telepresence made easy–just use the phone
A breakthrough in simplicity and design excellence, the StarLeaf Phone is the user interface for all your voice and telepresence communications. Now business-to-business and telepresence meetings with remote workers are easy, all you have to do is use the StarLeaf Phone. All in and out-bound calls are seamlessly routed through the StarLeaf Telepresence Border Controller and are safe, secure and successful.
Extending the reach of telephony
The StarLeaf solution seamlessly works across all telecommunications networks including SIP trunks from external providers. The Telepresence Border Controller enables secure firewall traversal, delivering all the advantages of low cost VoIP calls.
Easy installation
The StarLeaf Border Controller registers directly with the StarLeaf Telepresence PBX to simplify installation. As an appliance it offers high reliability and requires minimal configuration.
Features
- Business-to-business telepresence
- Trusted route for remote StarLeaf and H.323 video systems
- Safe and secure for all calls including VoIP
- Removes barriers to collaboration with remote workers and third parties
- Rapid deployment with limited configuration
- Paired with the StarLeaf Telepresence PBX
- Direct dialing using StarLeaf Phone
- Works with any firewall
- Routes calls across all networks including external SIP trunks
Technical specifications
Physical
- Weight 15.5 lbs/7.5kg
- Dimensions: (H x W x D) 3.5"x16.5"x13.2"/90mm x 420mm x 335mm
Power
- Built in autosensing power supply – 100 – 240 VAC 50/60 Hz 120 Watts
- I/O
- 1 x Autosensing 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45)
- 1 x Serial port for initial configuration
Protocols
- EVSIP
- H.323
- SIP
- AES
- H.235
- H.239
Codec Support
- Wideband audio with AAC-LD
- G.711 μ-law / A-law
- G.722
- G.722.1
- G.722.1 Annex C
- H.263
- H.263+
- H.264
- SVC
System architecture
Purpose-built product portfolio bringing together voice and video inside and outside the enterprise
- StarLeaf Telepresence PBX 6000 Series–a single, robust and scalable, platform for your voice and telepresence calls
- StarLeaf Phone–the only interface you need for voice and telepresence calls
- StarLeaf Personal Telepresence–putting video at the desktop across your organization
- StarLeaf Group Telepresence–for your meeting room environment
- StarLeaf Telepresence Border Controller–allowing you to connect safely outside your firewall
Connect voice and video callers anywhere
- Trunk to existing PBX systems and legacy H.323 video networks
- Lower costs by connecting to Internet-based VOIP services
- Connect to the PSTN from any location on the enterprise network
- Empower home workers with StarLeaf Personal Telepresence
- Provision users at remote offices with StarLeaf devices as easily as those at HQ
- Meet face-to-face on video with partners and customers who have H.323 endpoints routable on the public Internet
One administration interface: a web-based UI for all management tasks
- Configure one consistent dial plan for all voice and telepresence calls
- Provision users with Personal Telepresence
- Store the global directory
- Manage devices
- Configure trunks to VOIP services, legacy PBXs, and any other gateway devices
- Upgrade every component in the StarLeaf deployment
- View call records and system events
Easy interoperability
- The StarLeaf solution interoperates with standards-based voice and video systems, both SIP and H.323
- Interoperability is engineered into the STPBX meaning that future enhancements to interoperability are simply added to the STPBX
Safe and secure business-to-business calling
- StarLeaf Telepresence Border Controller provides trusted route for all calls including VoIP
- Easy collaboration with remote workers and third parties
- Routing for all calls across all networks and external SIP trunks
Single user interface for all calls
- The StarLeaf Phone is all that is needed
StarLeaf brings together voice and video, in a single purpose-built and interoperable solution, giving the enterprise all it needs to communicate at the desktop and in the meeting room. With ease-of-use as its guiding principle, StarLeaf combines voice and video to make telepresence as simple as picking up the phone. With StarLeaf you immediately gain anyone-to-anyone communication that switches seamlessly between audio and video calling. Gone are the days of fiddling with remote controls, now the only thing you need to know is a telephone number and StarLeaf does the rest.
Standards-based interoperability ensures that StarLeaf integrates with all legacy systems. It couldn’t be easier. Expanding the reach of your existing telephony and video systems is achieved effortlessly. StarLeaf leverages existing dial plans and transparently interoperates with current PBX systems to maximize your investments.
