Enhance PSTN Call Service Quality
- Single pane of glass to monitor PSTN call performance from both Microsoft Teams and AudioCodes perspective.
- Detect SBC related issues before they affect your business lines.
Managing Microsoft Teams voice performance requires deep insight into all components of the call path involving coordination between IT departments and service providers, each working with different tools with different objectives. IT teams often struggle to qualify and solve application performance or voice quality issues because traditional monitoring tools don’t provide substantial insight into the user experience. IT teams are sometimes siloed, so collaborating on poor Microsoft Teams performance from a failing or misconfigured Session Border Controller (SBC) may result in an increased mean time to repair (MTTR).
And even if SBC devices are mostly reliable, problems with configuration, the network, certificates, security or sometimes just media overload can have dramatic consequences.
Finally, SBCs like AudioCodes also collect performance information for each call that enables the UC (unified communications) team to get a partial view of the route of the data from the Microsoft Teams cloud to the PSTN provider. But that stream of data often doesn’t go up to the user, which makes the overall troubleshooting complex.
On the other end, Microsoft Teams administrators see the performance of calls up to the SBC but can’t qualify the root cause of the issue if the SBC has issues or if the performance dropped on the way from the SBC to the PSTN provider.
Martello Vantage DX solves this issue by providing both UC and Microsoft Teams management teams with complete end-to-end visibility on calls and network performance by collecting, correlating and testing the entire route of the data from the user to the PSTN provider.
What is Martello Vantage DX for AudioCodes?
Martello Vantage DX™ provides IT teams with a single pane of glass that correlates data from AudioCodes, from the Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard and from its own network path tests to rapidly resolve any call quality issue BEFORE it can impact end users.
Key AudioCodes Monitoring Features
- Provide end-to-end visibility on call quality by contextualizing the SBC call performance with the Microsoft Teams analytics.
- Analyze each part of the user’s call path to determine where the latency is coming from.
- Report on call flow & duration with detailed Jitter, RTT, Packet Loss and MOS score for all Microsoft Teams calls using AudioCodes.
- Retrieve all health states and alarms from the SBC and correlate them with Teams Phone service quality.
- Get notified if chassis, devices, trunk, high availability, TLS certificate, Licenses, network connections, password, media overload, security or SNMP Traps are causing AudioCodes problems that can degrade service quality – even before it can affect the user experience.
- Define your own custom alerts and SLA reports to understand how the SBC is affecting the quality of service delivered to business lines.
- Test and analyze the network path between your user data and the SBC
- Proactively detect Jitter, RTT or packet loss to prevent network problems from affecting the user experience
- Spot which network owner (internal, ISP, third party) is responsible for any network related issue.
Key AudioCodes Monitoring Benefits
Decrease your Mean Time to Repair
- Detect network-related issues affecting the path to your SBC in real time.
- Enable both UC and Microsoft Teams management teams to collaborate better.
- Eliminate finger pointing between teams with shareable accurate data.
Increase Microsoft Teams Phone Return on Investment (ROI)
- Reduce management and support overheads
- Reduce Microsoft escalations
- Reduce business line productivity downtimes
