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EXFO tackles VoLTE quality with addition of POLQA to service assurance product line


QUEBEC CITY - EXFO Inc. has added Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Assessment (POLQA), the newest voice quality measurement technique standardized in P.863 by the ITU-T, to its BrixCall product line.With voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) entering commercial deployment phase, EXFO said that service providers are looking to capitalize on premium services such as high-definition (HD) voice, and will need to ensure that high fidelity impairment-free voice is actually being delivered. POLQA allows for true customer experience analysis of HD voice services, providing superior measurement of common voice and HD voice quality impairments such as loss of fidelity, speech clipping, unacceptable noise levels, transcoding errors,...