* The CTX 600 VoIP Accelerator appliance from Converged Access
As more companies deploy voice applications in their IP networks, more vendors are emerging to help ensure quality of those voice calls and optimize performance of the supporting network.
Recently, Converged Access, an application acceleration appliance maker, announced it too would help companies deliver high quality voice – specifically small to midsize companies. The company, which launched tools to optimize and enable better performance on converged data, voice and video networks, last week announced it had developed an appliance to help smaller companies ensure voice performance.
The CTX 600 VoIP Accelerator appliance for small and midsize businesses can offer customers a low-cost way to protect their VoIP traffic and better ensure end-user quality of experience, the company says. The appliance plugs in to an IP WAN environment between a router and a switch, and classifies applications at “wire-speed on a per flow basis so VoIP gets top priority and guaranteed bandwidth,” the company says. Based on predefined business priorities, other data applications such as e-mail or Internet browsing are given “best effort service,” according to Converged Access.
The company, in a press release, shared how service provider customers are using the CTX 600 to optimize performance of their voice service to customers. Specifically, Whaleback Systems, which offers “turn-key” VoIP services to small and midsize companies, said in the release that the appliance could help the company guarantee call quality.
“The product will also provide critical statistics and management data which contributes to our total service performance monitoring. We plan to offer this product to our customers whenever data and VoIP share the same link,” Wray West, founder and vice president of engineering, Whaleback Systems, said in a press release.
The CTX 600 is available immediately and is priced at $650 list and will be available through resellers, IP PBX vendors and hosted VoIP service providers.
