Welcome to another February 2017 issue of GL's newsletter. In this issue, we focus on solutions for Consolidated Reporting for Large Contact Call Centers.  Such a system can provide valuable information for optimizing resources such as trunk sizing, call distribution, IVR capacity, human attendants, and similar “expensive” resources.

A typical system is shown below consisting of T1 E1 PRI Trunks, SIP Trunks, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) System, Call Distribution (Queuing) and Attendants/Departments for Specific Services e.g. Recorded Announcements, Help Desk, Emergency Services, Directions, Account Information, etc.

Also shown, are:

• GL's Passive Non-Intrusive T1 E1 PRI Monitoring System,
• PacketScan™ based Packet Voice Monitoring System,
• an Oracle Based NetSurveyorWEB™ DB Query System
• NetSurveyor can Query other Elements i.e IVR systems 

This newsletter outlines a project performed for a prominent Maryland-based Call Contact Center, wherein GL customized its T1 E1 PRI Monitoring system and  NetSurveyorWeb™ with a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IVR System.  The consolidated information obtained helped to provide valuable information for cost effective trunk sizing, IVR capacity, # of human attendants, and recorded announcements.

Sample NetSurveyorWeb™ Report

NetSurveyorWeb™ Overview

Any network operator, service provider, or equipment manufacturer must have the means to perform capture and surveillance tasks remotely, automatically, and non-intrusively. Fortunately, the network backbone contains a wealth of information that can be monitored and collected to support these activities.

GL's Network Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems are web-based applications that facilitate display of Call Detail Records (CDRs) by connecting to TDM, Optical, or IP probes through a web server for monitoring physical layer, signaling and traffic. Currently supported protocols include SIP, VoIP (SIGTRAN, SIP, H.323), SS7, ISDN, GSM, TRAU, MAP and more. 

GL's NetSurveyorWeb™ is based on a scalable and flexible architecture and is used in conjunction with GL's Protocol Analyzer probes to non-intrusively monitor from a single or multiple testing locations. GL's protocol analysis probes feed data to a database in real-time for further analysis. The NetSurveyorWeb™ client application then locally or remotely facilitates viewing records from the database using a simple web browser application.

Typical Applications

• Comprehensive analysis and reporting on overall network health to detailed protocol monitoring
• Automatic “Event of Interest” detection and real-time alerting
• Call detail records, fraud detection and location, remote protocol analysis and troubleshooting, real-time signaling monitor, traffic optimization engineering, and statistics
• Actual call signaling route determination to verify network functionality under all situations including congestion and loss of SS7 nodes
• Revenue and billing verification, alarm monitoring, intrusive testing
• Quality of service measurements, call trace and recording
  
  

Contact Call Center

Recently, a Maryland-based Call Contact Center utilized GL's expertise for evaluating call volumes, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) statistics as well as other contact center statistics.

At the center of the solution were  GL's T1 E1 ISDN PRI Trunk Monitoring System and Oracle based NetSurveyorWeb™.  GL also utilized its quick/easy Query software for interrogation of other Information Systems to present a Consolidated Report for contact call center key statistics.  Information presented in this report was gathered from multiple locations, including GL's analysis probes monitoring multiple carrier T1-PRIs.  GL also acquired statistics from multiple application servers that provided important call, IVR and agent statistics.  This project involved developing a software application that interfaced through an Application Protocol Interface (API) to a Genesys Voice Platform based IVR.  Multiple project stakeholder meetings were necessary to understand the relevant statistics included in the Consolidated Report.

The scope of the project included:

• Complete the system engineering needed to identify the statistical data required by the contact center stakeholders
• Provide a flexible architecture so that additions and modifications to the data extracted can be performed without future code changes
• Analyze and understand the existing reports that are generated by three sources: Unify's OpenScape Contact Center Server, the IVR Genesys Voice Platform Server, and GL's T1-PRI monitoring equipment
• Develop the necessary mechanisms to collect and/or extract the statistical data required from each of the three sources mentioned above
• Consolidate all statistical data and present it in a Consolidated Report produced and e-mailed to the stakeholders automatically on a nightly and monthly basis
  
  

Sample Contact Call Center Consolidated Report

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