VoIP and Video

Issue

Increasingly technologies such as Voice over IP telephony are a feature of the business landscape. For VoIP and other performance sensitive applications like video conferencing which depend upon time critical low latency network communications, network congestion can severely affect service quality causing calls to experience clipping, echo or drop out completely.

Even if a WAN has the existing capacity for VoIP over time factors such as new applications, new locations and new users can compete for resources and degrade performance.

VoIP offers many benefits, how can you ensure that it delivers?

Solution

Recommended Products

NetScope FastTrack
• target VoIP traffic to guarantee bandwidth resources
• ensure VoIP voice quality and reduce latencymore information

NetScope Reporter and Alerter
• monitoring and reporting assist planning for future needs and maintaining network performance
• network health at a glance more information

NetScope FastTrack offers a WAN optimisation solution that achieves QoS for VoIP by guaranteeing bandwidth, reducing latency and providing predictable quality in VoIP performance. By directly targeting VoIP traffic (and/or VoIP applications) bandwidth can be dynamically allocated as required to ensure network congestion is not an issue.

Additionally, by using existing infrastructure and available bandwidth more efficiently the need to add bandwidth capacity can be deferred or reduced resulting in real cost savings.

Monitoring

NetScope Reporter and Alerter provides comprehensive monitoring and full visualisation of traffic makeup both in real time and historically gives you the power to detect and isolate issues which can impact on critical traffic such as VoIP and video, all from a centralised web based platform.

By employing these reporting capabilities in tandem with the ability to shape traffic dynamically and allocate resources to important services in real time you can ensure your network is VoIP capable.