The NetIQ Vivinet Assessor product (Vivinet Assessor) helps you determine quickly and easily how well Voice over IP (VoIP) will work on a network prior to deployment.

Succeed with the NetIQ Solution

• Improve planning with predictive modeling, which narrows the scenarios that you will want to emulate on a live network
• Determine if your network can handle VoIP by evaluating and reporting on the network's ability to support VoIP's unique network requirements
• Predict call quality by collecting network metrics over time, which provides an accurate depiction of overall call quality once VoIP is deployed
• Create background traffic to simulate the impact of other application traffic on VoIP call quality

Key Features and Benefits

• Builds a network inventory, saving time by automatically surveying routers, switches and WAN links to be evaluated by Vivinet Assessor.
• Highlights limitations of current network devices, providing insight into potential needs for additional or upgraded devices before VoIP deployment by monitoring utilization statistics of current network devices and links.
• Performs configuration assessment, comparing information about device configuration gathered during a network inventory to a set of rules you supply—based on vendor recommendations—and reports any disparities.
• Provides polished, and customizable, assessment reports analyzing results at the end of the assessment. The report is easily customized and provides a straightforward executive summary that assesses the network's readiness for VoIP, along with detailed results by location for further analysis. Vivinet Assessor reports include information needed to identify potential problem areas.