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VeriWave Introduces Industry’s First Real-World VoIP Over Wireless LAN Test Solution
PORTLAND, ORE. - April 18, 2005 - VeriWave, Inc., the leading provider of wireless local area network (WLAN) test solutions, announced today the introduction of the industry’s first real-world Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) over WLAN test solution. The VeriWave VoIP over WLAN Analysis Test Suite assesses voice quality metrics of real-world VoIP over WLAN networks. It analyzes traffic prioritization, evaluates the network behavior in the presence of non-voice traffic, and measures overall call quality when users roam between Wireless LAN Access Points.
“Voice is quickly becoming one of the driving applications for wireless within the enterprise,” said Keerti Melkote, co-founder and vice president of product management for Aruba Networks. “Aruba’s success in servicing mixed voice and data solutions has recently been demonstrated at a number of managed services deployed worldwide. VeriWave’s VoIP over WLAN Test Suite has proven to be the best-suited, most reliable, and precise test tool to qualify our offering in real-world conditions.”
VeriWave’s VoIP over WLAN Test Suite is the only tool to provide open-air testing of mixed voice/data networks. It is also the only tool to support a wide variety of real handsets to generate voice traffic—scaling the network capacity from just a single handset to the maximum number of handsets the network can support before voice quality degrades to below user-acceptable levels. VeriWave’s test suite also precisely evaluates mixed use networks, by introducing precisely controlled data traffic to the networks, generated by VeriWave’s WaveTest Traffic Generator/Performance Analyzer.
“VeriWave’s VoIP over WLAN Test Suite allows equipment vendors, carriers and enterprise users deploying wireless LANs, for the first time, to measure the real capability of such a network to handle the demanding requirements of corporate, mission-critical networks,” said Eran Karoly, vice president of marketing, VeriWave. “It allows equipment vendors to debug and enhance their traffic prioritization schemes and to maximize their voice call handling capabilities without adversely affecting the end-user experience. For those deploying, or planning to deploy a wireless LAN network, offering mixed voice and data services, this suite is the first to compare and evaluate solutions from various vendors to assess overall user satisfaction before actual deployment.”
The test suite utilizes the VeriWave WaveTest Traffic Generator/Performance Analyzer to capture all traffic on the wireless LAN medium. WaveTest automatically calculates a wide variety of performance metrics characterizing the network behavior with the most important metric being the R-Value scores for each voice call, as well as for the aggregate of all calls. R-Value scores are the VoIP equivalent of the MOS scores used to characterize voice call quality in traditional telephony networks.
In addition to creating the base-line quality measurements of a VoIP over WLAN only network, the test suite adds background data traffic to precisely evaluate how the wireless network handles voice call prioritization in the presence of precisely controlled data traffic, and assesses individual call quality when handsets roam between Wireless Access Points.
Price and Availability
The VoIP over WLAN Analysis Test Suite and the WaveTest Traffic Generator/Performance Analyzer are available now. WaveTest pricing starts at U.S. $28,995.
About VeriWave
VeriWave was formed to address the need for reliable performance testing for wireless local area networks. VeriWave’s WaveTest products are built specifically for wireless performance and verification testing offering a high degree of data and timing accuracy, and a complete and flexible wireless test solution.
VeriWave is based in Portland, Oregon and is backed by major venture capital companies. For more information about VeriWave, go to www.veriwave.com, or call (503) 473-8350.
About Aruba
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Aruba Networks (Aruba) is a fast-growing enterprise infrastructure company. Aruba pioneered the concept of centralized network systems to enable wireless, security and mobility services. The company's products help corporations address fundamental new changes taking place in enterprise networks caused by user mobility, security and wireless technology. Aruba markets and manufactures a complete line of fixed and modular mobility controllers, wired and wireless access points and advanced mobility software. Privately-held, Aruba has operations in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and India and employs staff around the world. Aruba has received over $59 million in three rounds of venture funding from top-tier venture firms - Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity Ventures and WK Technology Fund. Visit Aruba Wireless Networks at www.arubanetworks.com.