Voice over IP Probe for HP OVIS from ADVENAGE

Voice over IP telephony is an emerging market - in all segments. Consumers are using VoIP to save costs. Companies benefit from the flexibility of VoIP.

For network operators offering VoIP services it is mandatory to determine achieved service quality in terms of accessibility, retainability and integrity.

VoIP Probe from ADVENAGE is a Probe Plugin for HP SiteScope and HP OpenView Internet Services. It measures important quality parameters for VoIP and PSTN calls and enables network operators to collect exact voice service performance parameters in real time. VoIP Probe from ADVENAGE supports SIP and H.323, and PSTN.

Service Quality data is collected by setting up voice calls periodically. Due to seamless integration with HP SiteScope and HP OpenView Internet Services, Probe configuration and scheduling is steered by SiteScope or OpenView. SLO violations are determined online and can trigger alarms. Collected performance data can be reported to tools like OpenView Performance Insight for aggregated SLA conformance reporting.

ADVENAGE, our Sales Partners and our Integration- & Service-Partners will help you to plan, build, and operate integrated application management solutions for VoIP and other services.

VoIP Probe was developed in close partnership with one of the largest European network operators with affiliates all over the world. The product was tested successfully for Interoperability with OpenView by HP.

To obtain more detailed information on VoIP Probe please contact ADVENAGE or one of our Sales Partners.

VoIP Probe Features:

• Voice calls from and to VoIP and PSTN devices in any combination.
• Voice calls to third-party:
  A voice call can also be initiated to a third-party, e.g. a voice mail box or IVR service that will answer automatically. This allows to measure the accessibility, retainability and integrity of the service.
• CLI verification:
  The answering party can check the presented CLI against a configurable pattern. If the CLI matches, availability is rated as 1 (100%). In this use-case, answering the call is optional.

Measurement results collected by VoIP Probe include availability, setup time, response time, ring time, call duration, hang-up time, CLI check result, jitter and packet loss. For VoIP to VoIP connections packet delay is provided as well.

VoIP Probe supports speech quality estimation via Mean Opinion Score (MOS) as an option. The MOS value is calculated based on the Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality algorithm (PESQ).

Since version 3.2 VoIP Probe supports H.323 through a H.323 user agent being part of the probe. With version 3.3 a new SIP stack was deployed allowing for registrationless interaction with SIP proxies and H.323 gatekeepers. Also HP SiteScope is support was added.

HP OpenView Interoperability

VoIP Probe has been tested and approved by HP for interoperability with HP OpenView. For you as a customer this includes a number of advantages, including prooved interoperability and seamless integration.

VoIP Probe Key-Facts:

• Supported Systems:
• Windows 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Pro, 2003 Server or Linux (SUSE/DEBIAN) with 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, other UNIX versions on demand
• HP SiteScope 9.x or HP OVIS 5.x, 6.x
• Dialogic DIVA card for PSTN based call origination and/or call termination
• VoIP user agents for SIP and H.323 ar part of the probe
• Current Version:
• V 3.3.9, released on July 15th 2008
• Contact:
• E-Mail

Further information on VoIP Probe:

We would be pleased to supply you with further information, a copy of VoIP Probe for HP OVIS and a test license to test VoIP Probe for 30 days. Please contact the ADVENAGE sales department directly via E-Mail.

Last update: Tue, 05 Aug 2008