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AirMagnet (News - Alert) Inc., a provider of compliance solutions for wireless LANs, recently unveiled a true voice-grade site survey capability for wireless, which facilitates organizations to efficiently deploy voice applications and instantly troubleshoot any voice-over-wireless issues on the network.

“There is a real need in the market for tools that allow organizations to monitor voice traffic performance and perform voice-grade site surveys instantly,” said Steve Newson, manager of systems engineering, Vocera (News - Alert), Inc. “Not only does the new AirMagnet integration allow a wireless professional to immediately troubleshoot, it also helps validate and map the call quality and other criteria to help ensure the highest standards are being met from the beginning of the deployment to the end.”

According to Chia Chee Kuan, CTO at AirMagnet, voice networks usually have more stringent requirements, as compared to data access networks. They require stronger signal levels, coverage overlap to prevent calls from being dropped, guaranteed bandwidth and low latency for optimum call quality, and more.

In order to address the above challenges, AirMagnet developed this new solution that offers customers with unprecedented control over voice applications, both in pre-planning, deployment and ongoing management, said Chia Chee Kuan.

Developed using new versions of AirMagnet Survey PRO and AirMagnet VoFi Analyzer PRO, AirMagnet’s new solution facilitates network installers as well as IT staff to perform real-world voice surveys, on an ongoing basis. With the help of voice surveys users can validate and plot the phone call quality, capacity and other voice-specific parameters at every location on a floor map. This will help in identifying and minimizing issues that may be causing low call quality, said the company.

According to AirMagnet, its Survey PRO facilitates users with coverage maps built specifically for voice networks, including WiMOS (phone call quality), wireless Access Point’s (News - Alert) voice capacity, channel utilization and phone data rate/retry rates. It also provides real-time roaming alerts and statistics for users while performing surveys, and also marks areas on the floor where phones tend to roam. 

Purpose-built for troubleshooting VoWLAN problems in the field, AirMagnet's VoFi Analyzer facilitates staff to measure call quality in real-time and automatically detect and troubleshoot the sources of voice problems, even on fully encrypted wireless networks. It addresses all aspects of wireless voice and diagnoses issues rooted in the end-user's phone such as QoS problems, RF problems, WLAN problems and even wired network problems associated with voice over Wi-Fi, says company.

AirMagnet said that its VoFi Analyzer also provides additional integration with leading voice solutions from Cisco (News - Alert), Spectralink and Vocera for complete end-to-end call analysis.

Leveraging company’s built-in voice readiness verification system, AirMagnet’s new solution enables network installers and IT staff to design as well as deploy the network optimally. The company’s built-in voice readiness verification system now includes support for Cisco 7925 phones and Vocera communications badges as well, said the company.