The Utilization assessment gathers and assesses utilization statistics for the devices and links on your network to let Vivinet Assessor determine whether your network is VoIP-ready. Vivinet Assessor contacts every device and link discovered during the Network Inventory.
The first steps in assessing utilization are to set up and verify the assessment. However, for the purposes of reviewing this Sample assessment, we will look only at the results. For more information, see Section 5.1, Setting Up the Utilization Assessment and Section 5.3, Verifying the Utilization Assessment.
You run the Utilization assessment from the Monitor view, which is also where results are displayed. To access the Monitor view, expand the Assess Utilization view tab and click the Monitor view tab. It is easy to see from the pie charts that our Sample network may be close to 100% VoIP-ready. Only 1% of switches and links were rated “Poor.”
In the table below the pie charts, notice that no router, switch, or link was found to be “Unavailable.” However, several were rated “Poor” or only “Acceptable,” indicating places where upgrades may be needed to ensure the network supports high-quality VoIP calls.
For more information about assessment ratings, see Section 5.2, Determining Assessment Result Ranges.