[cisco-voip] RE: change to Qovia re: QoS Toolsets

[VoIP Forum]

This is not a sales pitch, and I get nothing for this...

 

Qovia simply blows Cisco's current ITEM release out of the water, and
leaves the awkwardness of Prognosis in the dark. 

Cost wise, it is far less expensive than NetIQ in most installations and
can do so much more.

 

I my opinion it is the best Cisco VoIP Real-Time management tool there
is. We use it throughout our entire enterprise VoIP Network and have
been able to resolve many issues in minutes where we had spent hours in
the past troubleshooting. The best thing I could say that you may win
Mgmt over with... "We use it for SLA and QoS mgmt on remote sites. Since
the probes can simulate traffic to each other across the WAN. Due to
mitigation of lost call or poor call quality, Qovia pays for itself
within months instead of years. We have reduced time to roll out new
sites as well, since we can take a few days worth of testing and put it
into a few hours worth of active tests using the probes in conjunction
with Qovia Central.", and you can quote me on that.

 

It is 100% off box so there are not compliance and SMARTnet issues, plus
it utilizes its own DB and does not rely on the CDR which is not
accessible until after the call has ended. We have it integrated to our
NMS it sends e-mail pages to us when there is an issue. That let's us
actually see the MOS of the active call and on each leg of the call
while the user is on the call. This is great for real-time circuit
maintenance; for example, we can tweak llq (QoS) settings while the call
is up to see if that corrects the issue or not. We can identify bad
circuits and codec issues, etc... We can look at any services and
process utilization on the CCMs real-time or historically. We also use
Qovia for capacity planning.

 

Another awesome feature is the device inventory reports that will
actually show you comparisons to see who is moving their phone and from
where to where. You can run hourly, nightly, weekly, monthly reports and
they are all useful. We had visiting users grabbing phones off desks and
moving them wherever, and we could find them with a simple report as
well as what day it moved to track the culprits down.

 

 

 

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From: Voll, Scott [mailto:Scott.Voll at wesd.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:07 PM
To: VoIP Forum
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: change to Qovia re: QoS Toolsets

 

Are you using it?  I saw it at CIPTUG and am trying to get a quote to
show management.  Can you give me your opinion and overall impression?

 

Scott

 

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of VoIP Forum
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:00 AM
To: Sarff, Dean; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] re: QoS Toolsets

 

Qovia is the way to go!

www.qovia.com <http://www.qovia.com/> 

 

 

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sarff, Dean
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:56 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] re: QoS Toolsets

 

I'd like feedback from those users of either NET IQ's VoIP tools or
Integrated Research's PROGNOSIS.  How do you like your product
selection?  

Dean Sarff, MMS A&B IMD, 703-787-1272

Merry Christmas!  Happy Birthday Jesus!

May you an your family have a Blessed Holiday.

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