Agilent gets into P2T game

BOSTON—Agilent Technologies leveraged both its analysis and OSS capabilities to bring a monitoring and management solution to the Push-to-Talk market this week at the Voice on the Net event here. The company introduced the Agilent OSS NgN analysis system for monitoring, troubleshooting and call-quality testing of SIP-based P2T services.

The combination of session initiation protocol and large volumes of messaging required for P2T makes real-time call analysis even more essential, said Donna Bastien, worldwide OSS marketing communications manager for Agilent’s OSS business unit.

The NgN analysis system resolves network connectivity and call quality issues as well as failures in a P2T service. It does so by collecting and analyzing all call transactions and SIP messages and correlating them with various performance metrics that Agilent developed in conjunction with carriers to measure quality of service. The system also generates alarms for fault management systems and can perform a call trace across TDM and IP networks.

In addition to SIP, Agilent’s analysis system supports MGCP, H.323, NCS, TGCP, IPDC, SS7 and Radius protocols. It will be generally available next month.

“It’s the kind of thing NgN has been doing for years, but now for push-to-talk,” Bastien said. “And we are the first to support SIP.”