GL Communications (News - Alert), a provider of PC-based test, analysis and simulation products and consulting services, announced the launch of its Near Real-time Voice-band Analyzer software for monitoring voice band traffic over VoIP, TDM, 2-Wire and wireless networks.

The VBA application operates on previously captured files, making it a near-real time tool as opposed to a strictly real-time tool.

“The Near Real-time Voice-band Analyzer (VBA) is an analysis tool that can host an arbitrary number of analysis algorithms,” said Vijay Kulkarni, CEO, GL Communications, in a statement.

“Built-in algorithms include ITU-T P.56 Active Voice Level analysis, Line Echo Hybrid analysis, and licensed modules include 2-Wire Echo Analysis, Acoustic Echo analysis and Traffic Classifier analysis. Other analysis modules such as ITU-T P.561, P.562, and P.563 can be hosted as plug-ins,” Kulkarni added.

The solution is designed to support A-Law, µ-Law, 16-bit PCM (Intel), 16-bit PCM (Motorola (News - Alert)) and MS Wave file formats. This package is expected to work with other GL Communications tools such as PacketScan, Call Capture and Analysis, and many other recording tools.

VBA works in conjunction with GL Communications' TDM, Packet, and Wireless non-intrusive capture products such as TDM T1 E1 Call Capture and Analysis, VoIP PacketScan, GSM, CDMA, and 3G Call Capture Products and 2-Wire Voice/Data Capture Products.

The new analyzer is directly compatible with GL data capture products including Call Capture and Analysis (T1/E1 lines), 2-Wire Voice/Data Capture and PacketScan (VOIP). It is also compatible with products of other vendors provided that their file-naming conventions could be used to group files into sets and associate files with algorithm inputs, company officials said.

Recently, GL Communications launched an advanced Customer Premises Equipment based VoIP monitoring reporting and diagnostic appliance called PacketProbe. PacketProbe can fit seamlessly into any existing standards based management or reporting environment, such as SNMP or RADIUS.