Lafayette, Colorado – January 13, 2005 – APconnections, a supplier of plug-and-play bandwidth shaping products, announced today that its NetEqualizer product family now supports recognition, protection and quality guarantees for vendor-specific VoIP applications (VSVA). With the new VSVA functionality, NetEqualizer goes beyond merely identifying generic VoIP protocols such as SIP, H323 and RTP, to recognition of specific VoIP applications from third-party vendors including: Avaya, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Siemens, Mitel Networks, Tenovis (Avaya), Alcatel, NEC, Inter-Tel, Toshiba, 3Com, Shore Tel, Vonage, Vertical Networks, Skype, Ericsson, Philips Business Communications and Aastra Technologies. With the addition of VSVA recognition, NetEqualizer customers can be assured that latency-sensitive VoIP traffic will not be impacted by bandwidth intensive data traffic.
“Many businesses are currently evaluating VoIP for deployment in their networks,” said Art Reisman, CTO and founder of APconnections. “However, concerns about quality across shared data and voice links are stalling many implementations. With the addition of VSVA quality guarantees to the NetEqualizer product family, organizations can now implement VoIP applications with confidence. NetEqualizer’s built-in fairness rules and application recognition features automatically equalize network traffic. Vendor-specific VoIP apps get the bandwidth they need and aren’t impacted by p2p and other bandwidth hogs. And, at the same time, business-critical data applications are protected.”
NetEqualizer guarantees dedicated bandwidth to VSVAs based on the recognition of their specific traffic patterns and protects them from bandwidth-intensive Internet traffic such as large file downloads. The assignment of bandwidth is dynamic and completely automatic. NetEqualizer's VSVA guarantee works for both inbound and outbound traffic.
Recognition of VSVA is based on NetEqualizer's Application Recorder. Application Recorder is a feature within Net Equalizer that makes it possible to record specific application and then add the “footprint” of an application to the recognition library. This approach allows authorized NetEqualizer resellers and their end users to quickly add VSVAs.
About APconnections
APconnections (www.apconnections.net) is a privately-held company founded in July 2003 and based in Lafayette, CO. The company develops fully-featured, cost-effective and easy-to-install and manage traffic shaping appliances based on Linux and Open Source technology. APconnections released its first commercial offering in July 2003, and since then over 1000 unique customers around the world have put the NetEqualizer family of bandwidth shaping products into service. NetEqualizer products can be found at ISPs, WISPs, major universities, Fortune 500 companies, SOHOs and small businesses on six continents.
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