Finisar Surveyor manual Protocols Supported by Multi-QoS, Using Multi-QoS with Analyzer Hardware

Surveyor

User’s Guide

Full decode of multimedia protocols by Multi-QoS provides users with the ability to look at any captured packet and understand its contents. Multi-QoS validates that the network is performing as it has been configured and helps you troubleshoot problems. Multi-QoS provides graphic summaries of Call Jitter, Dropped Packets, and Call Set-up Time to view network performance at-a-glance. Point-and-click on graphs to see call tables. Click on any call to get complete call details.

Multi-QoS features are only available from Surveyor menus and toolbars when you have the Multi-QoS plug-in module.

Protocols Supported by Multi-QoS

Multi-QoS recognizes and decodes all major VoIP protocols. Support includes the following:

•H.323 (ITU)

The H.323 suite of protocol specifications created by ITU, including Q.931, RAS, H.245, and T.120.

•SIP (IETF)

The suite of protocols created by IETF, including SIP, SDP, and others.

•SCCP (Cisco)

Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP). SCCP is the proprietary signalling and communications protocol in Cisco’s AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data).

Multi-QoS also recognizes and decodes all major Codec protocols used for VoIP. Refer to Table 1-5 for a list of all protocols supported. Check the Finisar web site for updates on additional protocol support by Multi-QoS.

Multi-QoS also organizes call information where the signaling protocol is not recognized into tables with the protocol type of UNKNOWN.

Using Multi-QoS with Analyzer Hardware

Multi-QoS works with the complete range of analyzer devices and analyzer cards available from Finisar, as well as NDIS-compatible NIC cards. However, it is highly recommended that Multi-QoS be used with the THGm/THGs generation of Finisar analyzers. These hardware tools provide the hardware buffer sizes, processor speeds, and connectivity demanded by real-world network QoS applications.

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