IP SLA Test Types

IP SLA module supports the following test types:

  • ICMP Echo. Measures round trip time between nodes on your network.
  • ICMP Path Echo. Measures round trip time to all hops leading to a node on your network.
  • UDP Echo. Measures round trip time between nodes on your network by sending data using User Datagram Protocol.
  • TCP Connect. Measures WAN quality by testing connection timing between two devices using a specific port.
  • UDP Jitter. Measures inter-packet delay variance (jitter) by sending UDP packets.
  • ICMP Path Jitter. Measures hop-by-hop jitter, packet loss and delay statistics in an IP network.
  • VoIP Call. Measures your network's response time for setting up a Voice over IP (VoIP) call.
  • RTP. Measures jitter, frame loss, Mean Opinion Score for Conversational Quality (MOS-CQ), and Mean Opinion Score for Listening Quality (MOS-LQ) using Voice Gateway's DSP.
  • DNS. Measures the difference in time from when a DNS request is sent and when the reply is received.
  • DHCP. Measures the response time taken to discover a DHCP server and then obtain a leased IP address from it.
  • FTP. Measures the response time between a Cisco device and an FTP server to retrieve a file.
  • HTTP. Measures different aspects of web page load process.
  • Custom. Allows to specify all IP SLA test settings manually.

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