i-QAC
Italtel Quality Assurance Center

SCENARIO

Many Telco Operators, in order to retain customers (churn management) and reduce the drop-out rate without resorting to sheer price competition, had to move from Quality of Service (QoS) to the broader concept of Quality of Experience (QoE), in which the key factor is not the measurement of performance parameters of the network, but the customer’s perception of the characteristics of the end-to-end service (customer experience).

Therefore, evaluating the QoE as best as possible has become a must for Telco Operators and for companies that offer innovative services based on voice, video, data and streaming.

To this end, Italtel offers a solution for evaluating the QoE of many multimedia services:

VOICE VIDEO/STREAMING
SOCIAL CONFERENCING
WEB SURFING MAILING
DATA TRANSFER

BENEFITS

Performing a good appraisal of QoE level, Service Providers can anticipate potentially critical conditions and take the relevant measures to improve customers retention, without lowering prices, thus saving Average Revenue Per User (ARPU).

A distributed, flexible and automated monitoring and testing system prevents engineers from repetitive, manual tasks and poor added-value activities, resulting in improved processes and OpEx reduction.

Italtel has developed a vertical tool, named i-QAC (Italtel Quality Assurance Center), that helps Service Providers to measure customer experience. Proactively stimulating the network, i-QAC acquires information about the status and level of perceived service quality.

i-QAC is easy-to-use and scalable. It easily adapts to the characteristics of the tested infrastructure, in terms of network insertion simplicity and scalability.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Italtel i-QAC makes use of Active Intelligent Agents cooperating with each other and stimulating the network from its edge, in order to extract information about network health and QoE level. Agents can be connected to various fixed and mobile access networks, by means of dedicated gateways. The traffic simulations foster a proactive approach to the detection of service degradation, thus reducing the chances of service disruption.

i-QAC platform can monitor several different types of service (voice, fax, video, web surfing, etc.). Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Key Quality Indicators (KQI) are calculated according to standards (ITU and IETF).

i-QAC provides easy and quick access to measured data and statistical analyses by means of built-in and configurable queries, graphics and reports. The integration with Network and Service Assurance Systems can be implemented, in order to increase visibility and prevent service degradation.

Italtel i-QAC is:


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