Alternatives to Clearsight

August 11, 2008 10:21 AM

Are there any less expensive alternatives than Clear Sight that would allow one to capture and analyze VOIP calls in near real time? We're looking for something in the $25k range. Rolling our own with open source software is a viable alternative, and I'd like recommendations in that area, as well as commercial software. We do a fairly large volume of voip calls (hundreds per second), so we need something fairly robust, but we aren't verizon or anything, so don't necessarily need really heavy iron. TCPdump & wireshark is NOT a workable alternative, though :)
posted by empath to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

It would help to know why TCPdump and wireshark are not workable solutions (performance?, configuration?, support? pre-built analysis and reports?).
Have you checked out any of Agilent's products? Maybe this one? I think it runs around 15k.
posted by forforf at 3:35 PM on August 11, 2008

NETQoS/NetVoyant is the market leader in this area.
posted by iamabot at 6:27 PM on August 11, 2008

You might be able to do this by routing all calls through an Asterisk server set up to do just this.
posted by Brian Puccio at 7:49 AM on August 12, 2008

Response by poster: It would help to know why TCPdump and wireshark are not workable solutions (performance?, configuration?, support? pre-built analysis and reports?).

Volume of traffic.
posted by empath at 8:26 AM on August 12, 2008