Paessler PRTG

Maintain consistent VoIP call quality by monitoring MOS with PRTG

  • Keep an eye on MOS and other quality-of-service stats with a single tool
  • Get alerted promptly in case of underperformance and poor MOS values
  • Easily troubleshoot call quality issues and plan for more resources
 

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PRTG makes MOS monitoring easy

Custom alerts and data visualizations make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent background noise, bad quality of voice, and other causes of poor audio quality.

 

 

Stop "Hello?... Hello?... Can you hear me?" in its tracks, monitor MOS

We've all been on one (actually, many) of those calls.

Your video keeps freezing. Or you're constantly having to ask the other person to repeat themselves, because their voice keeps breaking up and you can't understand a word they're saying. 

It's awkward at the best of times. But especially so if it's an important meeting, like a sales presentation for a big client, or a new project kick-off.

Paessler PRTG's comprehensive network performance monitoring tracks the mean opinion score and other values that could impact call quality and alerts you when there's a risk of underperformance. That means smoother, more productive business calls… and fewer colleagues complaining to you about the VoIP system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye, freeze frame: Why choose PRTG as your MOS monitoring tool

Enhance VoIP service

Not just your MOS. Detect and analyze all kinds of call quality issues such as audio codecs, jitter values, latency, duplicate packets, or even packet loss. With PRTG, you no longer have to search for the needle in the haystack – you’ll immediately see what’s the root cause of an issue.

Enjoy end-to-end visibility

Not just the quality of service. PRTG monitors your whole network: applications, bandwidth, hardware, traffic, virtual machines… you get the idea. See all your critical stats at a glance, in real time, optimize performance, and stop wasting hours (or days) troubleshooting issues. 

 

Receive real-time alerts

Pick your preferred performance thresholds, and PRTG will email you, text you, or send an in-app notification when you're at risk of going under or over, so you can fix them promptly and avoid disruption. It's really as simple as that.

Suffer from less stress

Because, let's face it. At the end of the day, you want to do your job well and go home at a reasonable hour. PRTG works continuously in the background, keeping an eye on things so you don't have to, and helping you ensure your network stays fast and stable for best end-user experience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What MOS monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking audio codecs, quality of service parameters, network congestion, and other Voice over IP attributes. Show mean opinion scores and other key audio and video metrics in real time. Visualize data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot and fix the causes of poor voice quality in calls and other VoIP issues.

 

Start MOS monitoring with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.


 

 

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What's your MOS? How mean opinion score monitoring with PRTG works

PRTG monitors MOS using sophisticated preconfigured sensors that track key audio and video attributes round the clock. Set a warning or error threshold of your choice, and PRTG will let you know as soon as that variable risks going under or over it, so you can step in and fix the issue.

 

QoS (Quality of Service) One Way

The QoS (Quality of Service) One Way sensor monitors parameters regarding the quality of a network connection between two probes. It sends a series of UDP packets from the source probe to a target probe and can show the following parameters:

  • Minimum, maximum, and average jitter
  • Minimum, maximum, and average packet delay variation
  • The number of corrupted, duplicated, and lost packets
  • The time to last packet

QoS (Quality of Service) Round Trip

The QoS (Quality of Service) Round Trip sensor monitors parameters regarding the quality of a network connection between two probes. It sends a series of UDP packets from the source probe to a target probe at the end of the connection line. Then, the target probe sends the packets back to the source probe. It can show the following parameters:

  • Minimum, maximum, and average jitter
  • Minimum, maximum, and average packet delay variation
  • Minimum, maximum, and average RTT
  • The number of corrupted, duplicated, and lost packets
  • The MOS

SIP Options Ping

The SIP Options Ping sensor monitors the connectivity to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server using SIP options "ping". It can show the following parameters:

  • The response code
  • The response time

Cisco IP SLA

The Cisco IP SLA sensor monitors VoIP network parameters using IP service level agreements from Cisco. It can show the following parameters:

  • The average jitter between source and destination and vice versa
  • The minimum, maximum, and average latency between source and destination and vice versa
  • The minimum, maximum, and average RTT
  • The ICPIF
  • The number of late, lost, and out-of-sequence packets
  • The MOS

SNMP Cisco CBQoS

The SNMP Cisco CBQoS sensor monitors network parameters using Cisco's Class Based Quality of Service (CBQoS). It can show the following parameters:

  • The current and maximum queue depth
  • The number of drop and pre-policy packets
  • The drop, post policy, and pre-policy size
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Your MOS monitor at a glance – even on the go

Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.

 

PRTG comes with all the features you need, plus more your IT infrastructure won't want to live without.

 

 

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Easily find the source of the problem with PRTG MOS monitoring solution

Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues with poor call and video quality.

 

 

PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems


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Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s partners

Partnering with innovative vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
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IP Fabric

Combining the broad monitoring feature set of PRTG with IP Fabric’s automated network assurance creates a new level of network visibility and reliability.

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Rhebo

Rhebo and PRTG offer a comprehensive monitoring solution for IT and OT environments: from condition monitoring through to anomaly and threat detection.

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UVexplorer integrates tightly with PRTG to bring fast and accurate network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network mapping to the PRTG platform.

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“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”

Infrastructure and Operations Engineer in the Communications Industry, firm size 10B - 30B USD

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PRTG makes MOS monitoring easy

Custom alerts and data visualizations make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent bad MOS, packet loss, and other causes of poor call quality.

 

Monitoring the mean opinion score: FAQ

 

What is MOS?

MOS – the mean opinion score – rates the voice and image quality of a VoIP transmission. It is the arithmetical average of several parameters. The lowest MOS is 1, while the highest MOS is 5.

How do you calculate MOS?

MOS is an average of the performance of various video and audio attributes. ITU-T – the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector – has established standard tests for evaluating the quality of both video and audio.

What is a typical mean opinion score?

A VoIP MOS score of 1 means that despite great effort, it is impossible to understand what is being said during the call (the call repeatedly cuts in and out). A score of 5 means the quality is excellent, with no effort required to understand what is being said. MOS tests make it possible to compare a variety of codecs and audio connections. 

What is a codec?

“Codec” is short for “coder-decoder.” With a codec, data or a signal is digitally coded then decoded. This process is not immune to dips in quality. In telephone networks, a large number of codecs is used, each of which has its own MOS. The MOS makes it easy to compare the quality of the various codecs.

Why use a MOS monitoring tools like PRTG?

MOS monitoring tools like PRTG enable you to assess how your organization's VoIP system is doing at a glance. Check the dashboard, and you'll get your current MOS score straight away. Better still, PRTG alerts you as soon as there's a risk of issues, so you can fix them before your MOS goes down.

What is a sensor in PRTG?

In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.

On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.

 

PRTG the multi-tool

PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins

Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:

  • HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
  • Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
  • Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
  • REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format

 

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Network Monitoring Software - Version 24.3.100.1361 (September 25th, 2024)

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