Voice Protocol scanner??? 1

[jsaxe]

I'm currently preparing for a job interview for a Voice Analyst position. The job description lists the usual requirements, and one that leaves me scratching my head.

Along with the usual MAC's, diagnostics, preventative maintenance, etc., they ask for familiarity with "cable scanners and voice protocol analyzers".

It's pretty clear that whoever wrote this is probably an IT type (it took me a second to figure out what a "BICS" punchdown might be... erm, BIX?).

I suppose a "cable scanner" is a toner, or maybe one of those nifty ones that show wire mapping with LEDS, but what a Voice Protocol Analyzer is, neither I nor Google can guess. Anyone?

jsaxe

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[johnpoole]

maybe it's a data protocol analyzer that doesn't work on voice ckts... sounds like the discription was written by a data management type.. i may want to skirt that question, if it's asked with the which model question... i have almost never talked to an interviewer that could ask telcomm questions, if they do they have a list and not a clue as to the answer..

john poole
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[ISDNman]

Might mean a "Voice Over Internet Protocol" analyzer.

Never forget, the data types refuse to learn voice terminology, so they have redefined (with the help of Cisco) most of the terminology rather than learn it. Great recipe for success

Good luck

 

[jsaxe]

Thanx for the input guys.

More of a share-the-fun post than anything else, been at this long enough to not need anything more than a toner, my ears, eyes and common sense to analyze steenkin' protocol.

Ok, there was that one time my assistant put a dual-trace o-scope on some loop-starts, but that was just showing off to make some suits shut up and go away. Worked. (Google my sig.)

jsaxe



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[mattKnight]

Maybe they're talking about ISDN signalling analysers (trend aurora etc)?

Take Care

Matt
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[telnettech]

they could be talking about a protocol analyzer for looking at the different layers of the voice package over a ISDN or T-1......like a sunrise telecom or Tberd



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