The latest generation HEP (HEPv3) has been designed with much more than SIP in mind, and can now encapsulate just about any signaling protocol such as H323, IAX, SS7, control protocols like MGCP, MEGACO as well as RTP / RTCP statistics. As a unique feature HEPv3 is able to send custom defined parameters specific to a growing list of vendors.
The latest generation HEP (HEPv3) has been designed with much more than SIP in mind, and can now encapsulate just about any signaling protocol such as H323, IAX, SS7, control protocols like MGCP, MEGACO as well as RTP / RTCP statistics. As a unique feature HEPv3 is able to send custom defined parameters specific to a growing list of vendors. For instance, Asterisk can decide to send additional information about a specific channel (ie: bridge id, billing id, etc) independent of other platforms/vendors, natively and within the same encapsulation protocol. HEPv3 also fully supports streaming protocols (TCP/SCTP) and presents no MTU or defragmentation challenges and was ultimately designed for total scalability, making it perfect to be deployed in both classic and modern cloud scenarios.
An real life example is "Homer in the Cloud", a service created around HEPv3 allowing anyone to sign-up and immediately start feeding their HEP encapsulated traffic from their networks over to cloud servers to analyze/troubleshoot/share the database remotely and securely from anywhere using just their browser (based on webHomer OSS) delivering results with zero setup and maximum flexibility.
