Chapter 3: Supported Reports and KPIs

Table 2: Key performance indicators

KPI

Comment

 

 

 

 

MOS

Mean Opinion Score. This is an high level metric. Note: There is no

 

algorithm for Mean Opinion Score calculations. This is a subjective metric

 

from the end user point of view. In voice communications, particularly

 

Internet telephony, the mean opinion score (MOS) provides a numerical

 

measure of the quality of human speech at the destination end of the circuit.

 

The scheme uses subjective tests (opinionated scores) that are

 

mathematically averaged to obtain a quantitative indicator of the system

 

performance. To determine MOS, a number of listeners rate the quality of

 

test sentences read aloud over the communications circuit by male and

 

female speakers. A listener gives each sentence a rating as follows: - 1 bad; -

 

2 poor; - 3 fair; - 4 good; - 5 excellent. The MOS is the arithmetic mean of

 

all the individual scores, and can range from 1 (worst) to 5 (best). In our

 

context, our MOS calculation is based on the consolidation of Jitter, Latency

 

and Packets Lost values which give us a good overview of the real MOS

 

value.

 

 

NbPacketsLost

Number of Packets Lost by the subelement during a call. This metric comes

 

from the CMR table. Its set only once the call is established. This metric is

 

only available for IP Phones.

 

 

NbPacketsReceived

Number of Packets Received by the subelement during a call. This metric

 

comes from the CMR table. Its set only once the call is established. This

 

metric is only available for IP Phones.

 

 

NbPacketsSent

Number of Packets Sent by the subelement during a call. This metric comes

 

from the CMR table. Its set only once the call is established. This metric is

 

only available for IP Phones.

 

 

OffNet

Identifies a call where at least one PSTN Gateway is involved in the Voice

 

path, with the following criteria: - Inbound or Outbound call - Internal or

 

call to/from PSTN number - Intersite or Intrasite Legacy PBX Call

 

 

OnNet

Identifies a call where the caller is an internal extension and where the callee

 

is also an internal extension, from the same site or different sites, with the

 

following criteria: - Outbound call - Internal call - Intersite or Intrasite IP

 

Call - No PSTN Gateway is involved in the Voice path - This is a pure IP to

 

IP call

 

 

Outbound Loss (percent)

Out of all outbound traffic to be sent by this entity, the percentage of PDUs

 

that: (a) contained defects which prevented them from being transferable, or

 

(b) were discarded even though no errors are detected (i.e. due to congestion

 

or resource limitations).

 

 

PSTN Gateway Active DS0 Channels (Nb)

Total number of active DS0 channels for all of the enabled PRIs in a PSTN

 

device

 

 

PSTN Gateway Active DS0 Channels (Nb)

Total number of currently active DS0 channels for a PSTN gateway

(Gauge)

 

 

 

PSTN Gateway Call Setup Quality (percent)

Percentage of successful call setups for a PSTN gateway device

(Successful / Total)

 

 

 

PSTN Gateway DS1 Active DS0 Channels

Number of Active DS0s Channel that are active for a specific Serial E1/T1

(Nb)

Interface. Because there is no specific OID for thisin the MIB we assume

 

that: 1 Call = 1 DS0 Channel = 64 kbpsThenThroughput (in or out) /

 

64000 = Active Channels

 

 

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