ClariLink™ integrates voice and data network optimization, NAT and SIP Proxy to keep call and data sessions active even in case of service provider outage
Plymouth, MN – May 12, 2009 – Ecessa, a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME), today announced ClariLink™, the first WAN link controller with specialized SIP-application management for reliability over the WAN. ClariLink enables SIP traffic to be deployed reliably across multiple WAN and/or service provider networks for redundant link connectivity and automatic real-time failover. This ensures that businesses and users keep call and data sessions active even in the case of a service provider outage.
The ability to load balance SIP connections over multiple WAN links is critical for successful and scalable VoIP environments. ClariLink acts as a front-end controller, managing diverse WAN links and bandwidth capacities to provide a redundant SIP origination and termination solution. ClariLink includes a SIP Proxy, SIP Registration Server and Network Address Translation (NAT) Proxy that allows SIP traffic to be load balanced with failover among multiple WAN links to ensure reliability. These capabilities support the challenging requirements of today’s small businesses and its service providers for both reliable voice and data traffic demands.
“More and more businesses are showing their interest in SIP Trunking services, but some concerns around reliability remain,” said Matthias Machowinski, Directing Analyst, Enterprise Voice & Data at Infonetics Research. “With Ecessa’s newest product, SMEs can deploy multiple WAN links, and enjoy high availability, automatic failover and link redundancy, ensuring the continued reliability of their IP network connectivity.”
ClariLink ensures application and call integrity by making sure that all traffic persists to the correct destination, providing real-time session failover even in the event of an outage. A common problem businesses face with SIP communications is traversing NAT. The new ClariLink WAN link controller functions as the primary NAT device and addresses the issues with the NATing of SIP traffic – enabling SIP traffic to go over NAT environments successfully. By intelligently directing SIP traffic among multiple WAN links and/or service provider connections, ClariLink eliminates a key point-of-failure.
“The introduction of ClariLink is a very important technological milestone for SMEs” states Ron Thomas, president and CEO of Ecessa. “One of the most critical issues facing businesses today is how to effectively manage their voice networks, and integrating their voice systems with their data, multimedia, and new interactive capabilities. For service providers, system integrators and VARs, ClariLink provides them with the ability to offer a voice and data network optimization solution not previously attainable to SME’s. This will open new doors of opportunity and generate additional revenues for our partners.”
ClariLink intelligently and efficiently distributes network traffic among multiple, diverse network links (i.e. cable, xDSL, T1, wireless, satellite, etc.) and provides aggregation (multi-homing); automated inbound and intelligent outbound load balancing and failover; site failover and fallback and traffic shaping. LAN-to-LAN direct routing work in conjunction with site-to-site channel bonding that combines two or more WAN links into one large network connection to provide greater available bandwidth and reliability for large file transfers. ClariLink provides IT administrators with greater control, by allowing them to easily adapt to network changes by providing an optimization layer within their WAN at lower cost than other WAN optimization offerings.
The family of ClariLink WAN Link Controllers will be available in Q3 2009.
About Ecessa
Ecessa is a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while streamlining IT costs.
At one-third the cost of other competing products, Ecessa’s ClariLink, PowerLink and ShieldLink deliver industry leading price/performance value. Ecessa optimizes WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications.
Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN or WAN to multiple ISPs; enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic that ensures the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies.
Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to support user and business requirements. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.ecessa.com, or call us at 1-800-669-6242.
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