
Time-To-Live (TTL)
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Silence Suppression In Voice over IP (VoIP), silence suppression is a method of detecting the
silence in audio and purposefully dropping silent packets at the sender to
conserve network bandwidth. The receiver will generate comfort noise or
conceal the loss of packets when packets are dropped. Because the receiver
conceals loss and generates comfort noise, silence suppression is usually
imperceptible to the listener. The Silence Suppression field will be reported as
enabled, disabled or unknown.
Session Table The Session Table is one of the exported tables containing data that generally
remains the same during a session. As a result, there is one entry per session
in this table. The Session table will display in Microsoft Excel at the top of the
same worksheet as the Time-varying Data table and the Trace Route table.
The data in the Session table is indexed by SessionID and ParticipantID.
SessionID The SessionID column assigns a unique identifier to each session in the
exported file. Each exported session contains three sets of data. This data is
listed in three separate tables that are separated by a blank row: Session
Table, Time-varying Data Table, and the TraceRoute Table. Use the
SessionID to identify the session in each table to analyze the data.
StartTime The StartTime column in the exported file displays the date and time the
session started. This column appears in the Session Table of the exported file.
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TimeOffset The TimeOffset column displays the number of seconds since the session
started for this set of data. This column appears in the Time-varying Data
Table of the exported file.
Time-varying Data
Table
The Time-varying Data table is one of the exported tables containing the
time-varying data for the sessions in the Session table. The data in this table is
indexed by SessionID, ParticipantID, and a time offset. The SessionID and
ParticipantID enable the data to be linked to corresponding sessions in the
Session table. The time offset indicates when this set of information was
reported (in seconds since the start of each call). The Time-varying Data table
will display in Microsoft Excel below the Session Table on the same
worksheet. To view the information more easily, you may want to copy the
table and paste it to another worksheet.
Time-To-Live (TTL) Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet Protocol (IP) packet that tells a
network router if a packet has been forwarded towards its destination too
many times and should be discarded. For a number of reasons, packets may
not get delivered to their destination in a reasonable length of time. For
example, a combination of incorrect routing tables could cause a packet to
loop endlessly. A solution is to discard the packet after the packet has been
forwarded a certain number of times and send a message to the originator,
who decides whether to resend the packet.
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