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A performance monitoring system for VoIP gateways

Conway, 2000

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5627715522821081482
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Conway A
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Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Software and performance

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ABSTRACT A system is developed to monitor performance at voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateways in an IP-telecom network. The gateways provide a bridge for VoIP calls between the IP network and the conventional circuit-switched telephone network. The monitoring system …
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