Avaya gear enables VoIP calls 'anywhere'
The Avaya W310 WLAN Gateway and W110 WLAN Access Points, co-developed with Proxim, work with Avaya's Communication Manager IP telephony software to support the Motorola CN620 dual network mobile office device, also announced this week. The Avaya voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) products all are currently available; a mobility solution involving public cell-phone networks is in trials and expected later this year. The arrangement with Motorola is non-exclusive.
Avaya said the upcoming solution will allow highly mobile employees who now switch among office phones, cell phones and other devices to use one Motorola dual-network device to make VoIP-based calls as they travel within an enterprise or to an outside destination. The Avaya VoWLAN architecture, including the gateway, access points and IP telephony software, is a free-standing system that, Avaya claims, gives in-enterprise calls the reliability and voice quality equal to that of a desktop office phone, with no fading or dropping as users move about the enterprise campus.
In the currently shipping products, access-point intelligence and security policy provisioning are placed on a single gateway. This aids detection of vulnerabilities caused by rogue access points and allows administrators to stop hackers or unauthorized parties from accessing a business network. Communications are also encrypted. The gateway can support approximately 128 calls through the 16 access points in each WLAN W310 in 802.11b mode, and about 400 calls per gateway in 802.11g or 802.11a mode.
The W310 WLAN Gateway lists at $8,995 and the W110 WLAN Access Points at $495 each. Avaya said normal corporate discounts apply.