Proxim introduced an ORiNOCO Wireless LAN switching system designed to support voice traffic in corporate WLANs. Proxim said its switching architecture is capable of providing fast roaming to accommodate a user’s need to maintain mobility while on voice calls anywhere in the enterprise.
Since voice cannot tolerate session restarts, the system incorporates pre-authentication and per-user, inter-switch tunneling to ensure that voice calls maintain flawless interconnections in highly segmented networks. Proxim’s Switching System supports a pre-802.11e-based standard QoS implementation to meet the delay, jitter and latency specifications associated with voice. It also supports an advanced, pre-authentication mechanism that registers voice and/or cellular traffic and automatically supplies the highest levels of QoS across the entire Wi-Fi network. It is also able to intelligently distributes loads.
Proxim also said that it is integrating its core voice-over wireless LAN technology as described above into partner Ethernet switching platforms. http://www.proxim.com
