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Category: Telephony and VoIP, Vendor: Ascend/Lucent
Description: Manages VoIP gateway call configuration, codec selection, and session statistics on Ascend equipment.
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What Is ASCEND-MIBVOIP-MIB?
ASCEND-MIBVOIP-MIB is a proprietary Ascend MIB for managing VoIP gateway call configuration, codec selection, and session statistics. It exposes configuration objects for codec and call-routing policy alongside live session data such as active call count, codec in use, and call-quality-related statistics. Its monitoring role centers on software/session health: tracking active VoIP session counts, codec negotiation outcomes, and call statistics reveals whether the gateway's voice-processing software is handling calls cleanly or degrading under load. It depends on the underlying call-handling MIBs in this family (such as ASCEND-CALL-MIB) for the call legs that VoIP sessions ride on. It was deployed on Ascend VoIP gateways used by carriers and enterprises to bridge traditional telephony and IP networks. Engineers can download the ASCEND-MIBVOIP-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Ascend VoIP gateways
Monitoring Examples
An operator polls the VoIP session statistics objects to see current active call count and which codec was negotiated for each session, comparing that against the gateway's configured codec preference list. A rise in fallback to a lower-quality codec, or an increase in session-statistics error counters, indicates network congestion or a codec-negotiation problem affecting call quality. Session statistics are typically correlated with ASCEND-CALL-MIB call data to pinpoint whether a quality issue is voice-specific or trunk-wide.
What Can Be Monitored
- active VoIP call/session count
- codec selection and negotiation
- call quality/session statistics
- VoIP routing configuration
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
Manages Ascend VoIP profile configurations including gatekeeper control, packet audio modes, and TOS options.
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