PacketSmart

This is a free ‘optional’ module that has been provided to allow students of The SIP School to get some ‘real’ experience of working with a SIP trunk configuration in order to test if it can cope with the demands that is required of it by a business.  Although it is ‘optional’ it really does compliment and re-enforce what has been learned in other modules of this course.  It IS NOT part of the SSCA® certification test, hence it’s ‘optional’ status.

Topics:

Planning Steps

• Servers and Operation
• Do you have BYOB or OTT?
• Your ISP and ITSP – do they support QoS?
• What is a good time to run assessment tests
• Assess the components and configuration of your WAN
• Set up the WAN assessment network

The Assessment System

• Logging onto the Assessment system
• VoIP Assessment items
  • SIP Call flows
  • Call Metrics
  • Jitter
  • Lost Packets
  • MOS estimates
  • Traffic Flows
  • Reporting
• Starting a test
  • Test types
  • Codec selection
  • Number of trunks
  • Number of calls
  • Assessment period
  • Traceroute test?
  • ToS and QoS requirements
• Analyzing a test 
  • Call Metrics
    • Lost Packets
    • Jitter
    • Types of traffic flow i.e. UDP / TCP, Real Time etc.
    • MOS results
• Generating Reports
• Analyzing Reports
  • Analyzing MOS
  • Analyzing Jitter / Delay / Packet Loss
  • Router RTT responses
  • How to spot problems in the network from the report
• Advice on how to configure a WAN network