On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Douglas Garstang</b> <<a href="mailto:DGarstang@interainc.com">DGarstang@interainc.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What techniques do people use for checking ITSP (IP->SIP)
carrier reliability?</span></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">There's different categories of realiability. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The first would be call completion rates. It's fairly
easy to check for timeouts, bad SIP response codes etc.<br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What about dead air? How do you check for dead air?</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What about quality?<br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What tools exist to proactively monitor call quality in real
time?</span></font><br></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Ears! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'd like to be able to do least cost routing, based
not just on cost, but also on call completion rates AND recent historical call
quality metrics.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Cost<br>Maxchannels<br>ASR (you can further categorize this on basis of ${HANGUPCAUSE}<br>ACD<br>PDD<br>Jitter<br>Latency<br><br>MOS, but thats a manual process
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>wasim h. baig | principal consultant | convergence pk | +92 300 8508070