A major concern with VoIP is its limitations in locating end users geographically. This is particularly problematic in the case of an emergency where a 911 caller may not be able to provide a physical address, preventing police, firemen or ambulances from arriving in a timely fashion.

E911 and VoIP can impact large enterprises in a number of ways:

• Employees and guests alike expect the same E911 service at your facility that they receive at home
• Many states now require businesses to provide E911 protection for employees
• Failure by businesses to provide adequate E911 protection can result in civil and criminal liability

Enterasys Secure Networks™ architecture—featuring a security-enabled infrastructure, centralized command and control, and advanced security applications—provides the foundation to support your VoIP network with E911 service. The key is the embedded security found in every component of the Secure Networks infrastructure that recognizes voice, video and data traffic flows at the point of entry, and helps provide the industry’s fastest detection and location services, even over a heterogeneous, multivendor network.

• Commitment to industry standards ensures full interoperability with multivendor VoIP systems
• Dragon™ IDS/IPS identifies emergency 911 (E911) on the network and notifies NetSight management
• NetSight&reg management automatically pinpoints exact physical location of caller for quicker response
• Matrix™, SecureStack™ and RoamAbout® platforms prioritize E911 calls for advanced Quality of Service
• Infrastructure seamlessly integrates with existing enterprise and carrier networks

• Predictable and uninterruptible business communication, including voice/video/data
• Prioritization of business-critical systems, threat minimization and containment
• Simplified and efficient moves-adds-changes through convergence endpoint detection and automatic endpoint provisioning
• Fastest detection, location and response capability
• Secure firewall traversal for convergence protocols
• Services mapped to communication flows between people rather than to packets
• Visibility into the network from a single control point
• Addresses industry security issues and requirements
• Most precise security enforcement—pinpoint control at the user or device level
• Most pervasive deployment of network security functionality
• Enforcement of regulations such as E911, CALEA
• Only open architecture in the industry—interoperable with other vendors’ applications; certified for use with Siemens, Lucent, Avaya and others
• Best total cost of ownership in the industry