PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: NetAlly VoIP Network Assessment and Troubleshooting Software
Monday, April 20, 2009
The NetAlly Network Assessment and Troubleshooting package quickly and automatically determines the network readiness for VoIP and provides tools to identify and resolve service and readiness problems across the entire network.
As a network engineer responsible for VoIP deployment projects and network troubleshooting, NetAlly quickly identifies most of your network issues so that when VoIP deployment is started you are confident that you will not be faced with dissatisfied users complaining of poor call quality.
As a system integrator or VoIP equipment reseller responsible for evaluating whether the network is ready for the VoIP application, use NetAlly to validate the network to avoid delayed deployments, cost overruns and dissatisfied customers.
Pre-deployment Assessment
The network pre-deployment assessment is specifically designed to assess the readiness of the network, and certify the performance for supporting VoIP applications prior to deploying VoIP traffic. The assessment process is divided into three different phases, each of which has a definite objective in the overall assessment scheme.
Don’t take the risk of starting a live VoIP deployment without first conducting a network assessment.
The Network Configuration phase checks aspects of the network and consists of three different tests
- Connectivity
- VoIP traffic precedence (QoS policy)
- Route quality and utilization measurements
The readiness assessment provides the most accurate picture of VoIP readiness for the network that is being tested by:
- Identifying the maximum call capacity
- Identifying major contributors to call quality degradation
- Validate existing capacity planning assumptions
End-to-end call quality is measured using MOS scoring method and synthetic calls can be mixed with real data traffic during normal production hours to get a real world assessment of service quality or scheduled for off-hours operation when critical business applications are not in use.
The performance certification test phase verifies the accuracy of the Readiness Assessment test data by emulating a fixed number of calls over an extensive period of time. This test makes it possible to assess VoIP performance according to time of day and day of week, under varying network traffic conditions.