Active Assurance Analog/TDM Testing

The Role of Analog Voice Services in Hybrid TDM and VoIP Networks

As Network Operators move towards implementing an IMS network, a major concern remains with how their next generation services will co-exist alongside their legacy TDM networks. In fact much of the Tier I and Tier II Service Provider networks still use TDM trunks to sell hosted services to many enterprises and residential networks. As a result, the role of TDM networks is still very prominent in today’s networks and promises to exist for many more years.

It’s fairly safe to say that voice calls that stay within a TDM infrastructure will yield very little issues, but the challenge today intensifies as customer’s voice traffic traverses hybrid mobile, and IP infrastructures. As a result end-to-end testing equipment is needed in all segments of a customer’s voice service (or media path).

Emulate your voice services with Active Assurance

With Tektronix Communications' Active Assurance portfolio, a Network Operator can emulate services in the TDM and VoIP environments, gaining full visibility into their customer’s end-to-end quality of experience. Moreover, they can proactively test their voice service signaling and media paths to ensure that the services are reaching their destinations correctly while ensure that peering partners quality SLAs are being met.

Voice Quality measurements – Analog and IP Impairments

With industry approved voice quality algorithms, Active Assurance products for Analog and TDM testing gives you the edge in truly understanding your customer’s experience. Having the ability to look at the audio domain of any voice call allows Service Providers to compare and benchmark experiences in the VoIP, Mobile or TDM environments.
 

  • End-to-End subscriber emulation of their TDM, VoIP, or Hybrid services to get a full understanding of their quality of experience.
  • Automated tests to schedule at different congestion periods of the day to uncover issues before your customers call to complain.
  • Industry standard PESQ analog voice quality measurements to measure your customer’s listening and conversational quality and benchmark your service against any fixed or mobile network
  • Least cost route validation based on call and speech quality to your interconnection partners and ensure they are meeting SLAs
  • Low-cost test responders that can be permanently placed at customer premises or used for a field technicians toolkit to measure the end-to-end quality of service in a timely fashion which helps to reduce Operational and Capital Expenditures