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AirMagnet Upgrades Voice-Over-Wireless LAN Monitoring Tool

  • July 13th, 2007
  • 10:03 am

AirMagnet, a provider of wireless network analysis, on Monday launched a new version of a tool for monitoring and troubleshooting voice that’s deployed over wireless local area networks.
VoFi Analyzer 3.0 understands voice traffic as it passes through a wireless network. It then collects and combines connection, device, and server data to give IT managers better insight into their company’s voice deployments, said AirMagnet. In other words, the data is collected from three different sources: the phone, the WLAN, and the wired side, such as a server.

The new version allows IT managers to pinpoint call problems and generate mean opinion scores, which measure the quality of received media after compression or transmission, even on networks that have been encrypted. Traditional packet-sniffing technologies have to decode the traffic first to determine call quality scores, AirMagnet said.

“With more and more companies looking to run voice applications over wireless networks, it’s critical for an IT manager to be able to quickly troubleshoot VoWLAN deployments without endangering the security of their networks,” said Dean Au, president and CEO of AirMagnet.

VoFi Analyzer integrates with popular networking products like Cisco’s Call Manager and Vocera’s servers to provide analysis of a network’s end-points and the traffic in between. This is especially important when it comes to correcting connection issues. It also supports SpectraLink’s IP phones.

The new version comes in two editions. VoFi Analyzer Standard costs $10,000; VoFi Analyzer Pro costs $12,000 and includes all the features of the Standard edition, plus support for Cisco, SpectraLink, and Vocera.

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Sprint, Cisco Launch High-Speed WWAN

  • July 12th, 2007
  • 1:57 pm

Sprint Nextel and Cisco have announced the availability of a high-speed WAN solution, featuring the Cisco 3G Wireless WAN High-Speed WAN Interface Card (HWIC), running on Sprint’s mobile network. The network card is available through Sprint’s business channels.

Jointly developed by Sprint and Cisco and for use with applicable Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs), the Cisco 3G Wireless HWIC solution is part of the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture.

With support for EV-DO Rev. A technology, Sprint business customers using the Cisco 3G network card can take advantage of increased data speeds, flexible deployments, managed service and enhanced security connection to Sprint’s IP or MPLS VPN networks. The solution is also backward-compatible with EV-DO Rev. 0 and 1XRTT networks.  Sprint expects to upgrade most of its mobile broadband network to EV-DO Rev. A by the end of this year.

“Given our wireless data expertise and IP leadership, Sprint is uniquely positioned to offer this integration of wireless and wireline, which offers the promise of reduced costs and increased efficiency,” said Tony Krueck, vice president of product management and development for Sprint, in a statement. “This full-service solution combines security, data and router management services into a single cost-reducing platform.”

At launch, Sprint is offering the Cisco 3G Wireless WAN HWIC solution as an extension of its managed network services and customer equipment support portfolio. Customers will have a choice of service plans including unlimited and usage-based service plans.