Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Ecessa Aims to Improve VoIP Reliability

Veteran network controller vendor Ecessa, formerly Astrocom, has launched its latest product line, the ClariLink family of WAN link controllers for SIP traffic.

Ecessa has two above curve of products, PowerLink and ShieldLink. PowerLink provides amount acclimation and assorted WAN (Wide Area Network) accession failover and aerial availability, while ShieldLink adds VPN (define) and firewall capabilities to PowerLink connections.

ClariLink adds SIP proxy-aware apparatus affiliation to the ShieldLink line. SIP has abounding uses, but one of its best arresting is in the Articulation over IP (VoIP) bazaar as allotment of affection of account (QoS) support.

Right now, VoIP has believability issues. If there is an abeyance in the connection, the parties are disconnected. ClariLink is a front-end ambassador that manages the WAN connections, administration amount acclimation and attention the affiliation as able-bodied as the affection of the call.

"VoIP is not bound by this, but a ample block of barter will be VoIP users who appetite the believability and aerial availability and amount acclimation and failover, the affection we can accommodate actuality chip with an apparatus that does all those things," Brad Johnson, advance developer for Ecessa, told InternetNews.com.

With ClariLink, if there is an abeyance in the VoIP communications or the amount becomes burdensome, the alarm is automatically confused to addition WAN link. The aftereffect is added good affection calls and beneath alone calls.

The fresh WAN articulation ambassador is aimed at baby and midsized barter attractive for added able articulation arrangement administration and to administer and appearance their bandwidth traffic, but Johnson said VoIP isn't the alone acceptance book for ClariLink. For example, it can additionally handle data, multimedia and alternate initiatives.

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