WildPackets announced the scheduled release of EtherPeek VX — a integrated Ethernet and VoIP analyzer designed for enterprises, service providers, and the field service needs of equipment manufacturers. The produce provides both Ethernet and VoIP diagnostics in one solution. As a software-only solution, EtherPeek VX is designed to be portable and affordable.
WildPackets said its EtherPeek VX can analyze up to 100 open calls simultaneously, without requiring expensive hardware. The product provides per-call analytics and metrics, and supports multiple signaling protocols like SIP, H323, MGCP and SCS. The signaling analysis provides visual flow of messages between participating end-points in a call. The media plane analysis looks at packet-level details of RTP and RTCP streams and evaluates packet delay variations, packet loss, jitter, etc. and provides a passive MOS value for each call.
The solution can be used to detect problems such as inefficient bandwidth utilization, inefficient packet loss recovery, poor compression, sub-optimal jitter buffer length, quality degradation, inadequate Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and long signaling setups. EtherPeek VX will ship in July 2004. http://www.wildpackets.com/
