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Empirix Vaults Ahead In Conference Bridge Quality Monitoring With Innovative 'Real Voice' TestingBILLERICA, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Empirix today announced a first-of-its-kind conference bridge monitoring application that ensures top voice performance and bridge reliability by duplicating customers' experiences during conference calls then using them as the key measurement of quality. The Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution's innovative new voice-based conference quality management model is a significant departure from conventional conference bridge monitoring. Where standard tools monitor network data feeds for packet loss, jitter, etc., the Empirix (News - Alert) solution approaches monitoring from the user's perspective. It tests exactly what the user is hearing during conference calls by evaluating voice clips as they play through conference bridges. "Ensuring trouble-free conferences requires a level of visibility that conventional monitoring solutions can't provide," said Empirix CEO John D'Anna. "Do the access numbers work? Are conferences bleeding together? Do callers drop off? Packet flows don't provide that kind of insight, which is why we designed a new monitoring method that uses the customer experience as the baseline. Companies conduct billions of dollars of business over conference bridges. Our Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution provides the quality and reliability assurances they expect for such an important business tool." Real voices for real quality The Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution verifies conference server availability, performance, uptime and participants' voice quality. It performs three essential quality and reliability management functions that enable conference bridge service providers to create consistenty positive customer experiences. They are:
The heart of the Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution's capabilities is its voice-based testing model. The solution automatically sets up conference bridges of up to eight participants, dials into the conference, and plays audio clips. The solution captures the audio on the other side of the bridge and evaluates it for degradation using the industry-standard PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) algorithm. Dashboard alarms alert network management staff to irregularities with a KPI that may signal a quality problem. The Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution provides out-of-the-box functionality for monitoring the most important conference call KPIs with minimal customization. The KPIs include:
The solution provides network operations staff with active, real-time performance alerts and passive monitoring of network data. This combination enables staff to respond to performance issues immediately and remediate their root causes. Using data collected through network probes, the Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution provides a logical drill down that helps network operators pinpoint if a specific phone number, carrier, location, or conference bridge server is having a problem. The Conference Bridge Monitoring Solution can work as a stand-alone solution or integrate with existing network management infrastructures. It is available immediately. For more details on Empirix's Conference Bridge Management Solution, please contact Empirix at (978) 313-7047 or [email protected]. About Empirix Empirix is the recognized leader in end-to-end network performance visibility with the unique ability to analyze customer behaviors by application in real time. We help service providers, mobile operators, contact centers and businesses master complexities and optimize business processes to reduce operational costs, maximize customer retention and grow top-line revenue. Through testing, monitoring, analytics and intelligence, Empirix helps companies around the world realize the full value of their technology investments. Empirix was acquired in 2013 by private equity firm Thoma Bravo as the first step in an aggressive strategy to take advantage of growth opportunities in the network services industry. The company is creating a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end network service assurance solutions that will offer customers an integrated performance management solution in an otherwise fragmented market. The following are trademarks and service marks, or registered trademarks and service marks, of Empirix Inc. or its subsidiaries, in the U.S. and other jurisdictions: Empirix, the Empirix logo, OneSight, Hammer On-Call, Voice Watch, IntelliSight, Hammer xCentrix, Hammer XMS, Hammer XMS Active, Hammer G5, Hammer Call Analyzer, Hammer NetEm, Hammer TDM, Hammer FX-TDM and Hammer DEX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Empirix Inc. in the U.S. and other jurisdictions.
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