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VoIP Readiness Assessment Tools

Will begin mass VoIP rollouts in the near future. I've looked at the NetIQ "Vivinet Assessor". Looks like it is around $12,000. A little out of my budget. Are there any tools out there that will help assess VoIP readiness for a network, that aren't outlandish in price or even free? Software preferably, but also Hardware recommendations welcome.

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grblades

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eidebailly

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Not exactly the kind of solution I was looking for. I would have to lug around two computers to all the sites? Also, SIP is the protocol we would be using. Doesn't IAX and SIP have different packet lengths, etc.?

grblades

No the codecs are the same between IAX and SIP so it is really only the control information which is different which will be minimal for an established call.

You would only need one computer at each end that you are testing so you could have a PC at the main office and carry round a notebook to the other.
If there is a free PC you can use at the remote site you could download the free vmware player and run asterisk under wmware. See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=551485

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cliffchapman

Try AppView Voice from www.appneta.com.