RE: RAQMON drafts

A clarification - RAQMON does not target specifically and solely VoIP.
It's applicability is for multiple applications QoS monitoring. RAQMON
framework is defined to be extensible by supplementary metrics, as
required by various applications. So, for people who do not believe that
loss and jitter is good enough for VoIP (I happen to be among them) we
can define RAQMON extensions that carry for example RTCP XR metrics from
RFC 3611. There will be many applications that will come in the feature,
and new metrics (see RFC 3611 being now extended) - the idea of RAQMON
is exactly to provide basic metrics for initial baselining, define the
transport rules and an extensible QoS monitoring framework that could
accommodate further metrics and future applications.

Regards,

Dan

 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:22 PM
> To: Lobo, Danny
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [RMONMIB] RAQMON drafts
> 
> Danny
> 
> Actually almost all the VoIP test equipment vendors use the 
> same technology for VoIP performance monitoring.  It is also 
> worth noting that both Audiocodes and Texas Instruments 
> announced in early 2005 that they were integrating technology 
> into their VoIP solutions to support RTCP XR and related 
> reporting protocols, which from a technology perspective 
> represents a sizeable proportion of the VoIP market.
> 
> I've been fighting the "loss and jitter is good enough" 
> mentality for six years, and fortunately most of the industry 
> has seen the light!!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Alan
> 
>  
> 
> >I have been following the above thread for sometime now and do I 
> >understand the gist of your arguments. Given what you said, I am 
> >wondering how many VoIP test/monitoring Vendors will 
> actually implement 
> >RAQMON?
> >
> >There are some industry heavy weights behind this standard but - 
> >correct me if I am wrong - it appears that there isn't much mass 
> >support. A lot of Vendors seem to have their own proprietary 
> >implementation of VoIP monitoring and one would expect that 
> a standard 
> >(RAQMON?) would be a unifying force.
> >
> >Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Danny Lobo
> >  
> >
> 
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