GL's voice-analysis tool enables real-time monitoring

PacketProbe is completely transparent to your existing network and is able to interface with any WAN or LAN.

-- Test & Measurement World, 7/27/2010 7:00:00 AM

PacketProbe is a CPE (customer premises equipment) based VoIP monitoring, reporting, and diagnostic appliance from GL Communications. It works with the company's PacketScanWEB monitoring and reporting system, but will fit seamlessly into any existing standards-based management or reporting environment. Multiple PacketProbes, coupled with PacketScanWEB, provide complete and immediate network-wide voice-quality visibility.

PacketProbe furnishes vital voice-call-quality statistics, call detail records, and quality-of-service metrics at the end of each call. It can be integrated into an intelligent third-party network device, like a router, or deployed as a stand-alone appliance. PacketProbe is completely transparent to your existing network and is able to interface with any WAN or LAN. It can even function as the demark point between a WAN and LAN. In any scenario, it passively monitors VoIP traffic and produces real-time per-call and per-stream voice-quality metrics necessary for network administrators to isolate and diagnose voice-quality problems.

PacketProbe reports metrics to a local console or to a centralized database via industry-standard protocols, like TCP/IP, SNMP, and RADIUS. A network-management system, such as PacketScanWEB, would then allow many simultaneous users to read and query the database using a conventional Web browser.

For comprehensive information on PacketProbe, go to www.gl.com/packetprobe.html. For more information about PacketScanWEB and to view a demonstration, visit www.gl.com/packetscanweb-demo.html.

GL Communications, www.gl.com.