VoIP Network Monitoring
Improve Your VoIP Connections With VoIP Network Monitoring
Packet delay, jitter, packet loss, reordered and duplicate packets affect VoIP traffic more easily and with higher impact than other forms of network traffic. VoIP network monitoring should therefore be an integral part of your network monitoring solution if you use VoIP or other streaming technologies such as video conferencing or online gaming.
How Does VoIP Network Monitoring Work?
PRTG Network Monitor includes a powerful QoS ("Quality of Service") sensor, which measures jitter, network latency, packet loss etc. PRTG enables you to see the quality of your VoIP connection at a glance and warns you when quality deteriorates. This gives you the option to troubleshoot your VoIP network even before users are affected by VoIP specific connection problems (echo, noise or breaks in the conversation). In order to set up VoIP network monitoring with our QoS sensor, you just need to place a remote probe on both ends of the connection and measure the connection quality between them.
If you have IP-SLA enabled Cisco hardware, you can also use PRTG's IP-SLA monitoring feature. It monitors several standard quality of service parameters, such as ICPIF (Calculated Planning Impairment Factor), MOS (Mean Opinion Score), average VoIP Jitter, lost, delayed, and reordered packets, network latency, etc.
PRTG - More Than VoIP Network Monitoring
But PRTG is not only an advanced VoIP monitoring tool. The network monitoring software by Paessler ensures the availability of network components while also measuring traffic and network activity, using SNMP, packet sniffing, and NetFlow monitoring.
The PRTG network reporting tool is available in two editions. For basic bandwidth tracking and availability monitoring, the Freeware Edition of the packet sniffing / SNMP software may be downloaded and used for personal and commercial use completely free of charge. For more advanced needs, including NetFlow monitoring, licenses for the Commercial Editions start at $400 / €300.
