Configuring Voice Tests - HP A3100-8 v2 EI Configuration Manual

To do...
Configure the string to be filled in
the data field of each UDP packet
Specify the source port of UDP
packets
Configure the source IP address of
UDP packets
Configure optional parameters

Configuring voice tests

NOTE:
Do not perform voice tests on known ports, ports from 1 to 1023. Otherwise, the NQA test might fail or the
corresponding services of these ports might be unavailable.
Voice tests of an NQA test group are used to test voice over IP (VoIP) network status, and collect VoIP
network parameters so that users can adjust the network.
A voice test performs the following procedure:
The source (NQA client) sends voice packets of G.711 A-law, G.711 μ-law, or G.729 A-law
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codec type at regular intervals to the destination (NQA server).
The destination affixes a time stamp to each voice packet that it receives and then sends it back to
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the source.
Upon receiving the packet, the source calculates results, such as the delay jitter and one-way delay
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based on the packet time stamps. The statistics reflect network performance.
Voice test result also includes the following parameters that reflect VoIP network performance:
Calculated Planning Impairment Factor (ICPIF)—Measures impairment to voice quality in a VoIP
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network. It is decided by packet loss and delay. A higher value represents a lower service quality.
Mean Opinion Scores (MOS)—A MOS value can be evaluated by using the ICPIF value, in the
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range 1 to 5. A higher value represents a higher quality of a VoIP network.
The evaluation of voice quality depends on users' tolerance for voice quality, which should be taken into
consideration. For users with higher tolerance for voice quality, use the advantage-factor command to
configure the advantage factor. When the system calculates the ICPIF value, this advantage factor is
subtracted to modify ICPIF and MOS values and both the objective and subjective factors are considered
when you evaluate voice quality.
Use the command...
data-fill string
source port port-number
source ip ip-address
See "Configuring optional
parameters for an NQA test
group"
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Remarks
Optional
By default, the string is the
hexadecimal number
00010203040506070809.
Optional
By default, no source port number
is specified.
Optional
By default, no source IP address is
specified.
The source IP address must be that
of an interface on the device and
the interface must be up;
otherwise, no probe packets can
be sent out.
Optional