SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Aruba Networks, the Mobile Edge Company, has announced Voice Flow Classification (VFC), a unique packet inspection and classification capability enabling a collection of advanced Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) functions. With VFC and the associated feature suite, Aruba delivers the industry's highest quality, most secure and most scalable VoWLAN solution. The new capabilities are:
Advanced Call Admission Control (CAC): Enables call-state monitoring and sophisticated load-balancing of voice-capable devices to assure network availability and performance for both voice and non-voice clients
Quality of Service (QoS) Policing: Raises and lowers the priority of individual flows based on both the user role and the actual traffic type
Voice-Aware Scanning: Inhibits an Access Point (AP) from scanning other channels during an active voice call to avoid noticeable speech interruptions
Voice Client Security: Leverages Aruba's integrated firewall to allow access for less secure voice devices without compromising WLAN security
Early Media and Ringing Tone Generation (RFC 3960): Delivers a ringing tone to the caller to prevent speech clipping before the call is accepted and connected
These new capabilities, combined with Aruba's new VoIP interoperability alliances (see companion release - "Aruba Announces VoIP Interoperability Alliances for VoWLAN Deployments"), enable Aruba to deliver the industry's most comprehensive enterprise VoWLAN solution.
"We have worked closely with Aruba since the start of our VoWLAN field test in late 2004, and the results-to-date have been excellent," said Shuichi Takahashi, general manager of the Wireless IPC Business Unit for Uniadex in Japan. Uniadex, a subsidiary of Nihon Unisys Group, is a professional IT services and solutions company with 200 offices in Japan and international offices in over 150 countries. "As we roll out VoWLAN broadly, we expect to have more than 1,500 wireless voice devices active on the network. Aruba's architecture makes them the only vendor capable of meeting our VoWLAN needs in terms of performance, security, scalability, and voice quality. As we continue to collaborate with Aruba, we look forward to other new capabilities in the areas of VoWLAN, location services, and mobility."
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