Malden Electronics

Teraquant has partnered with Malden Electronics, Ltd. of the UK to distribute and support Malden’s high-quality voice quality test solutions in the USA and Canada. Malden Electronics have been measuring speech for over twenty years and are used by over 175 different companies worldwide. Their customers represent the global leaders in voice communications products, services and networks.

Malden Electronics produces the most accurate measurement and most comprehensive implementation objective voice quality assessment of PESQ (ITU-T Recommendation P.862) available in the world today. They also provice the most accurate measurement of one way delay for the voice path available in the world today.

Why is accuracy important?

1. Accuracy avoids the cost of chasing and repairing a problem which has no impact on quality or user experience.
2. Accuracy allows you to pin-point the real cause of bottlenecks in your system.
3. Accuracy prevents you from failing a good product.

Test Applications

Device Testing

• Voice Codec performance
• Compare different algorithms and implementations
• Bandwidth required to achieve a given level of voice quality
• Packet Loss Concealment mechanisms
• Determine capacity of devices such as gateways sharing DSP resources between voice streams

Network Test and Monitoring

• Isolate network elements contributing to poor voice quality
• Baseline current voice quality to set realistic goals for VoIP migration
• Monitor voice SLA's
• Provide objective acceptance criteria
• Eliminate good networks from bad networks

Devices to be Tested

• Handsets and Mobiles for cellular, WiFi and VoIP
• VoIP gateways
• Any device with a voice codec or Transcoder