Improved 3G Mobile VoIP Experience
Improved 3G Mobile VoIP Experience
8th May , 2009
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US : ClearSight Networks announced the release of version 7.0 of its market-leading network capture appliance, Network Time Machine® (NTM). This latest enhancement to the NTM family enables network administrators to quantify voice quality on 3G mobile networks and meet the demands of increased network traffic and mobile internet services.
The emergence of more VoIP services over the next few years may attract organizations to use mobile VoIP more frequently. Meeting the challenge of maximizing the quality of service (QoS) related to voice transmissions in wireless communications, ClearSight is now able to deliver a high quality end-to-end mobile VoIP experience. The NTM 7.0 captures and analyzes data from audio and visual network transmissions—such as video conferencing, multimedia entertainment services, telemedicine, surveillance, live video broadcasting and video-on-demand—and makes meaningful measurements using MOS, R-values and other metrics.
“Q-DEN BUSINESS SOLUTIONS currently uses the ClearSight NTM product to monitor our network traffic; we are excited to upgrade to the NTM 7.0 to support our network infrastructure,” said Mr. Kenichi ICHINOSE, Manager of 3rd System Technical Group, Q-DEN BUSINESS SOLUTIONS. “The NTM allows us to quickly understand network communication events so that performance can be optimized and downtime and outages avoided.”
Innovation and growth are cornerstones to ClearSight’s NTM family of solutions. ClearSight has recently expanded the NTM feature set into the 10 Gb/s Ethernet arena; extended its reach to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the availability of ClearSight Network Time Machine (NTM) Express®, a turn-key data capture and analysis system for enterprises looking for a cost-effective network recorder appliance; and enabled a new level of interoperability with Wireshark®, a popular software protocol analyzer. We also recently announced the world’s fastest and most secure NTM using RAIDed 6 Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and supporting hardware level data encryption.
“Texas Wesleyan University is committed to proactively managing and optimizing the performance of our large, intra-campus network infrastructure,” said Richard Webb, Senior Network Engineer at Texas Wesleyan University, a co-educational liberal arts institution with an increasingly comprehensive academic and student life program. “Even as cutting costs becomes a priority for higher education institutions, ClearSight’s network analysis tools continue to offer us a cost-effective way to identify problems at the application and network layers. Powerful and easy-to-use, ClearSight’s solutions deliver the real-time monitoring and management capabilities that are so critical in helping us to prevent network issues.”
With today’s release of NTM 7.0, ClearSight is additionally enabling performance enhancements for its Atlas® product, including better program execution speed and the ability to export network records. Because Atlas also supports a number of key applications such as HTTP, the NTM 7.0 is also able to provide expanded support for HTTP flow playback, enabling the playback of even inconsistent multimedia streams. Other new features of the NTM 7.0 include:
- New support for 3G-324M, the umbrella protocol for video telephony in 3G mobile networks,
- Recognition and support of Ethernet jumbo framing of up to 64,000 bytes in size, and
- Expanded support for TCP streams, a common protocol used in the transmission of network information.
NTM 7.0 has begun shipping. At the same time, ClearSight is also shipping a new version, 7.0, of the ClearSight Analyzer® (CSA). Both new software products are available at no additional cost to customers on the SUS (software updates and support services) program.