Combining voice, data and video on the same corporate network requires careful planning. Companies pursuing the benefits of unified communications must take steps to ensure that the converged network delivers acceptable call quality, nonstop availability and support of all services running concurrently without negatively impacting business applications.

Shunra’s network virtualization solutions for software testing validate the performance of unified communications solutions.  Shunra helps clients create a test lab to evaluate the audio and video quality between any two points on the network under projected network conditions and actual production network behavior, providing valuable insight into projected voice, video and application performance.

Shunra’s solution for testing unified communications networks enables the enterprise to:

• Determine whether the WAN is ready for VoIP, video, IM or other communication demands;
• Understand how the network and other applications and services will be impacted by communications traffic;
• Know in advance precisely how changes to the communications application or network topology will impact quality at all remote sites;
• Discover application design flaws early in the development cycle to avoid project delays and cost overruns;
• Reproduce intermittent performance problems in the lab to ease troubleshooting and improve service levels.

Shunra can provide organizations with proven best practices to optimize VoIP performance testing and uncover any potential bottlenecks before deployment.