AirFlow Leverages Hardware-based Processing for WLANs

AirFlow Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California announced a hardware-based implementation of wireless traffic processing that delivers significant improvements in WLAN performance and scalability. The design provides that all traffic throughout an entire WLAN is processed in silicon enabling QoS for specific real-time applications, such as voice and video of the WLAN. The company said that a single of its switches can now support over 100 of its AirHub access points at line-rate capacity without degradation. The packet processing provides deterministic per-packet processing latency below 10 microseconds -- without degradation even as the number of wireless clients scales to 10,000 -- with full packet lookup, inspection, classification, rewrite/transformation and forwarding. AirFlow Networks also announced additional security and fault tolerance features as well as a new AirHub access point model. http://www.airflownetworks.com