| WinEyeQ Professional |
ClearSight Analyzer
Distributed 6.1.6 |
PVA-1000 |
| Touchstone
Technologies |
ClearSight
Networks |
JDS
Unisphere |
| $20,000 |
$20,000 |
$8,000 |
| Highly scalable; effective and detailed
interface; very accurate VoIP-quality assessment. |
Excellent remote-management ability; intuitive
drill-down interface; excellent real-time voice and video monitoring. |
Great interfaces and navigability; good alerting
capabilities; interoperability with third-party capture agents; strong
voice-quality statistics and playback features. |
| Online help not context sensitive; no
data-post-capture analysis; no expert commentator. |
Online help not context sensitive; no expert
commentator; unable to set up thresholds for many of the alerts. |
No expert commentator; difficult to distribute
updates to remote agents (via FTP); real-time graphical display for
voice quality limited. |
| OmniPeek Enterprise 5.0 |
Codima Toolbox 5.1 with
autoVoIP |
|
| WildPackets |
Codima
Technologies |
|
| $28,500 |
$29,000 |
* Vendor-suggested list price
$USD based on five-site deployment based on two DS-3 and two T-1
WAN-connected locations with a central site monitor. No limit on number
of users or monitored calls, but pricing limited to the necessary
components for four distributed probes or agents and one central
monitor. |
| Good interface-customization capability;
extensive plug-ins available for IM and e-mail; full-duplex
conversation playback; helpful expert commentator for troubleshooting
VoIP networks. |
Integrated Microsoft Visio network-topology map;
expert correlation engine provides troubleshooting guidance;
easiest-to-use GUI with autopopulating drill-down icons for IP phones
and VoIP connections. |
| Online help not context sensitive; no
granularity for SNMP traps; voluminous reporting could be simplified. |
Some interface bugs and glitches encountered;
autodiscovery of network devices required,which can limit
troubleshooting; troubleshooting-analysis-grid feature not intuitive;
call voice-quality assessment off about 0.5 MOS. |
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