Network Management

PowerProbes for Hub and Core

Directly measure your customer’s Quality of Experience

Echo, Noise, Clipping, and Speech distortion are examples of KPIs that can be accurately measured with modern test equipment. While customer complaints need to be taken seriously, they are often too vague to diagnose an issue (“The line sounds choppy” or “There’s a robotic voice sound…”). Now you can take a proactive approach and diagnose your network before your customer complains. The Tektronix PowerProbe™ 6000, PowerProbe™ 500, and PowerProbe™ 50 are valuable during all operational phases: Network deployment, monitoring, and service.

Deploy: “Day of Installation” On-Demand testing
Monitor: 24 / 7 Proactive verification to identify transient service issues
Service: Customer Care applications to reduce customer churn

The PP6000, PP500, and PP50 conduct test calls that give an accurate picture of the customer experience on and off network. This Service Level Test Management system can be used for Voice, VoIP, Fax, Video IP Core, TDM, Cable, and Wireless (e.g. Cellular, WiMAX, WiFi) environments.

Product Support

Comprehensive
The PowerProbe 6000, PowerProbe 500, and PowerProbe 50 provide end-to-end, real-time visibility into the customer experience.
Adaptable
These carrier-grade probes are highly scaleable, remotely upgradeable, and capable of running the full library of Tektronix test agents.
Expansive
Perform voice, VoIP, fax and data service and transmission quality tests to any region worldwide without any far-end test equipment. The PowerProbe 6000, PowerProbe 500, and PowerProbe 50 use single-ended test agents, public IVR, faxes, and modems as far-end terminations.
Network Performance
Automatically analyze network status during call progress using an E.180-based database of worldwide tones and Call Disposition Codes (CDC) to perform detailed connectivity analysis including ASR, ABR, CCR, and NER.

Download the PowerProbe 6000 datasheet (1.18 MB) for all features, characteristics and product applications.

Download the PowerProbe 500 datasheet (478 kB) for all features, characteristics, and product applications suited for Operator hub-sites, small central offices, Aggregate Gateways, Enterprise locations, etc.

Download the PowerProbe 50 datasheet (239 kB) for all features, characteristics, and product applications suited for Aggregate Gateways, Enterprise locations, etc.

Physical Features

These carrier-grade probes are highly scaleable, remotely upgradeable, and capable of running the full library of Tektronix test agents. They are based on a Linux network computer. The PowerProbe 6000 and PowerProbe 500 are 19” rack-mountable.

System Features

VoIP / Video Service Validation
Hot Spots Troubleshooting
Bulk Test Calls Campaigns
Proactive Service Level Monitoring
Trunk Testing
Network Performance Analysis
IP QoS Validation
Proactive End-to-End QoE Monitoring
Carrier / Peering Fabric Benchmarking
Video Conference Testing

Key Features

Combined TDM/IP Testing
Carrier-Grade Scalability
Unique Near-End Testing

Download the PowerProbe 6000 datasheet (1.18 MB) for all features, characteristics and product applications.

Download the PowerProbe 50 datasheet (239 kB) for all features, characteristics, and product applications suited for Aggregate Gateways, Enterprise locations, etc.

Zoey
Customer Care Solutions: By providing any network or service provider a genuine view of a customer’s Quality of Experience (QoE), Tektronix’ IVR is a solid customer retention tool. End customers or Field Technicians can call Zoey to self-diagnose the most common voice service issues occurring in the last mile. Zoey supports Customer Care systems and reduces costs by cutting out needless trucks rolls.
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DirectQuality
Test Automation Solutions: Simplify business-level decisions by providing complete service level test automation from test call generation to Quality of Service (QoS) troubleshooting. Our Web-based OSS features color-coded service level thresholds for reporting, alarming and analysis. With DirectQuality (DQ), users can schedule tests at any hour or initiate on-demand testing to customer premises.
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Test Agents and Layouts
Tests are conducted by software test agents that run on the PowerProbe� family of service level test probes. Each test agent is designed for particular QoS verification applications such as voice quality, fax, and call connectivity testing. Over 30 different test agents allow operators to fully monitor and troubleshoot their critical services using a variety of different test layouts.
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Download the PowerProbe 6000 datasheet (1.18 MB) for all features, characteristics and product applications.

Download the PowerProbe 50 datasheet (239 kB) for all features, characteristics, and product applications suited for Aggregate Gateways, Enterprise locations, etc.

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Download the PowerProbe 6000 datasheet (1.18 MB) for all features, characteristics and product applications.

Download the PowerProbe 50 datasheet (239 kB) for all features, characteristics, and product applications suited for Aggregate Gateways, Enterprise locations, etc.