San Diego-based Mushroom Networks recently released “VoIP Armor,” which was designed to improve the voice quality and reliability of VoIP calls by creating a bonded IP tunnel.
VoIP Armor is built into Mushroom Networks’ flagship Truffle Broadband Bonding offerings, which aggregate and orchestrate multiple Internet access lines.
VoIP has gained wide-spread adoption in enterprise networks, especially with the advent of IP-PBX architectures that are often used to connect branch offices back to a central PBX over the IP network. But the major problem area—the inconsistency of the voice quality and the reliability of the VoIP calls—still exists, according to Mushroom Networks. VoIP Armor addresses and solves that problem by creating a bonded IP tunnel that adds redundancy and protects against any negative network conditions such as starvation, loss, latency and jitter.
Mushroom Networks said VoIP Armor shields the VoIP traffic against any type of WAN link performance fluctuations and link failures. The technology relies on two or more Broadband Bonded Internet links to protect the VoIP packets against loss, delay and jitter as well as against starvation from other cross traffic. The end result is that VoIP calls are more reliable and consistent in call quality. VoIP Armor also boosts simultaneous call capacity because of the increased WAN bandwidth of the bonded Internet lines, according to Mushroom Networks.
“More and more enterprises are looking to take advantage of VoIP, especially to connect their branch and remote offices, because of the inherent cost savings VoIP provides. But all too often, the VoIP systems are prone to dropped calls, lower voice quality or simply too inconsistent to be relied upon as effective audio communication,” said Cahit Akin, CEO of Mushroom Networks. “VoIP Armor, that we designed into our Truffle line, fixes this problem by adding a reliable and consistent layer within the network connection, giving enterprises a high-speed and redundant connection that leverages readily available, low-cost broadband.”
Mushroom has enterprise clients—who use cable modems as one of their WAN resources—currently using VoIP Armor.