Ensuring top quality VoIP in a LAN or WAN infrastructure

Inside-the-office best practices (LAN)

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Outside-the-office best practices (WAN)

As you can see, LAN infrastructure challenges can be solved by good design practices, but to get control of the WAN one needs a sophisticated solution that combines traffic management and access functions under a common policy management umbrella to guarantee VoIP quality.

About the author:
Manickam Sridhar brings a rich experience of leading-edge product design from Sitara Networks, Motorola and GTE. While at Motorola, Sri led the product development teams for many of their successful communications products. His creative ingenuity has led to ownership of 19 U.S. patents in high-speed modem, multimedia and networking technologies, with additional patents pending. Sri holds an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa and a B.S. from the University of Madras, India.

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