Voice Group Probe for HP OVIS from ADVENAGE
Even if data services are becoming more and more important for GSM and UMTS network providers, service providers and MVNOs around the world, Voice services are still making up the major part of their revenues. Therefore accessibility, retainability and integrity of this service is crucial.
Besides the standard two-peer mobile-to-mobile call, Mobile Network Operators offer IN-based services for calling groups. A calling group is a set of mobile stations sharing an additional common MSISDN. A call to this group MSISDN will be passed to the first member of the group and - if it is not answered within a certain time - will be forwarded to the next member. User of this service could be e.g. service operators, sales personnel or doctors. It is essential for these customers that the call forwarding takes place exactly as defined.
Voice Group Probe from ADVENAGE is a probe plugin for HP OpenView Internet Services Version 6.0 or higher. Its purpose is to test and measure voice calling group service availability in cellular networks and to transfer this information to the HP OpenView Internet Services Server for monitoring, alerting and statistical analysis. Voice Group Probe integrates seamlessly with HP OVIS and other OpenView products.
As a probe plug-in for HP OpenView Internet Services, Voice Group Probe enables mobile network operators, service providers and MVNOs to run voice calling group service performance monitoring using an industry standard performance management system. This avoids expenditures by running separate OSS systems or integrating non-standard systems into their performance management environments.
Voice Group Probe comes as a full service package including consulting, installation, support and software maintenance.
Voice Group Probe gathers availability and performance data by periodically initiating voice calls between up to 5 GSM mobile stations (Cellular Modems connected to the probe station) belonging to the same calling group, measuring the forwarding time to each modem, answering the call with the last modem in the chain, keeping it open for some seconds and hanging up.
Whether a measurement was successful can also be made dependent on a particular CLI being presented at the answering modems. In this case, a measurement will only be regarded as successful, if the correct CLI is found.
Voice Group Probe Features:
- Voice call forwarding:
Voice Group Probe is able to initiate, answer and hang-up voice calls to a calling group of up to 4 members using voice capable cellular modems. The probe will check the order of the call forwarding down the chain and measure the time for each forwarding. The last member in the chain may optionally answer the call and keep it up for a configurable number of seconds before hanging up. If this procedure is successful, availability is rated as 1 (100%). - CLI verification:
The calling cellular modem can be configured to send its CLI when initiating the call. The answering modems can check the presented CLI against a configurable pattern. If the CLI matches, availability is rated as 1 (100%).
Measurement results collected by Voice Group Probe include availability, setup time, response time, up to 4 ring times, call duration, hang-up time, CLI check result and radio signal strength. Measurement results are transferred to HP OVIS immediately after the probe run is finalized.
Voice Group Probe currently supports GSM as bearer service. Support for UMTS is in preparation.
Voice Group Probe Key-Facts:
- Supported Systems:
- Windows 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Pro, 2003 Server
- HP OVIS 6.x
- Supported GPRS modem (e.g. Siemens MC35i serial port, Audiotel Modex USB, Multitech Multimodem-EDGE Model MTCBA-E U)
- Current Version:
- V 1.0.2, released on September 13th 2007
- Contact:
Further information on Voice Group Probe:
| Data sheet: | Voice Group Probe data sheet |
| Overview presentation: | Voice Group Probe product overview presentation |
We would be pleased to supply you with further information, a copy of Voice Group Probe for HP OVIS and a test license to test Voice Group Probe for 30 days. Please contact the ADVENAGE sales department directly via E-Mail.