VoIP network monitoring with SmokePing

Previously I mentioned the possibility of using SmokePing to show loss, latency, and jitter on the PSU VoIP network. The current version has a "slave mode" which would allow dumb pollers to be deployed around the network for different perspectives on network performance. Additionally, SmokePing can be customized to test with any packet size (for example, 160 bytes for G.711 in 20 ms segments) to see the statistics for the type of data packets we're most concerned about. We could even write our own probe modules to do real RTP rather than RTP-sized ICMP packets. More to come on this after some testing.

Try this Google search to get at some public SmokePing sites (maybe) monitoring VoIP: "smokeping targets" voip.