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Network Assessment

The network assessment tool that measures what your users actually experience.

Ping replies. The dashboard is green. And users still complain about dropped calls, frozen video, and slow apps. MyConnection Server assesses the whole path end to end, so you can prove a network is ready, or find out exactly why it isn't.

Why "It's Up" Isn't an Answer

Most network checks tell you the link is alive. They don't tell you if it's good enough.

A speed test reports one burst of throughput. A monitoring dashboard reads counters at a single point and infers everything else. Neither proves whether a voice call will hold, whether a video session will freeze, or whether a branch is ready for a cloud rollout.

A real network assessment generates the traffic your applications will produce and measures how it actually behaves across the path. That is the difference between assuming a network is ready and proving it, with data you can hand to a customer, a carrier, or an auditor.

A fast speed test can still hide the jitter and loss that break real-time voice and video
Unstable latency creates talk-over and lag that a single average ping never reveals
Enough headroom for one stream doesn't mean enough capacity when every seat is on a call at once
A green dashboard at the core says nothing about the last mile to a remote worker's home
What MCS Assesses

Every metric that decides whether the network is good enough

MyConnection Server runs real, controlled tests across the network path and measures the metrics that actually determine user experience, not just whether the link responds.

Equilibrium Throughput

Sustained, real-world speed measured with RFC 6349 methodology, not a one-second burst that overstates what the connection can hold.

Latency & RTT

Minimum, average, maximum, and consistency of round-trip time. Erratic latency, not just high latency, is what breaks real-time apps.

Jitter

Variation in packet arrival time, upstream and downstream. The single biggest predictor of poor voice and video quality.

Packet Loss & Distribution

Not just how much is lost, but whether loss is spread out or clustered in bursts that destroy audio and video.

Connection Capacity

UDP ramp testing finds the real usable capacity of a connection within acceptable loss, so you know what it holds under load.

VoIP & Video Quality

MOS scoring, SIP response times, and SIP ALG detection prove whether the path can carry unified communications.

Route & Path Analysis

Bidirectional traceroute reveals asymmetric routing, problem hops, and where along the path performance degrades.

Port & Firewall Availability

Confirms the specific TCP and UDP ports your applications depend on are open and responding across the path.

Assessment, Not Guesswork

Prove the experience. Don't infer it.

Passive monitoring watches traffic at one point and infers the health of everything else. It tells you a counter changed, not whether a call was clear. A MyConnection Server assessment actively sends real traffic across the entire path, from a test point at the site to the destination and back, and measures whether it arrives on time and intact.

  • End-to-end results from the user's location, not just the core
  • Repeatable tests you can re-run before and after any change to prove impact
  • Run once for a point-in-time assessment, or on a schedule for a continuous baseline with trending and alerting
  • Shareable, defensible reports for customers, carriers, and audits
  • Deploy test points as hardware appliances, software agents, or Raspberry Pi in minutes
Pre-deployment: Qualify a site before you commit to a cloud, voice, or SD-WAN rollout
Post-change proof: Confirm a circuit upgrade or config change actually delivered the improvement
Ongoing assurance: Catch degradation as a trend, before it becomes a support ticket
When to Run an Assessment

Built for the moments where "probably fine" isn't good enough

How It Works

Place test points. Run real tests. Get proof.

An MCS assessment doesn't wait for complaints. It generates real traffic across the path and reports exactly what users would experience.

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Place Test Points

Deploy satellites at branch offices, data centers, remote worker locations, or customer sites. Hardware appliances, software agents, or Raspberry Pi. Takes minutes.

2

Run Real Tests

MCS generates actual throughput, capacity, and media traffic between endpoints. Not synthetic pings. Real packet flows that mirror how your applications behave.

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Get Proof, Not Opinions

See throughput, latency, jitter, loss, capacity, and MOS scored against thresholds. Run on demand, or schedule assessments for continuous baselines with trending and alerting.

Common Questions

Network assessment, explained

What is a network assessment?

A network assessment measures whether a network can actually deliver the applications that run on it, not just whether it is up. A thorough assessment tests real end-to-end performance: sustained throughput, latency and its consistency, jitter, packet loss, available capacity, and the quality of real-time media such as voice and video. The goal is to prove what users will experience before problems reach them.

What is a network assessment tool?

A network assessment tool runs controlled tests across a network path and reports the metrics that determine user experience. MyConnection Server places test points at any location — branch offices, data centers, remote workers, or customer sites — and runs real, simulated traffic between them to measure throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, capacity, and VoIP/video quality, then scores each result against pass/fail thresholds.

How do you assess network performance?

You assess network performance by generating real traffic across the path and measuring how it behaves, rather than reading interface counters at a single point. MyConnection Server measures equilibrium throughput (RFC 6349), round-trip latency and consistency, jitter, packet loss and its distribution, connection capacity, and MOS-scored voice quality. Because tests run end to end and can repeat on a schedule, you see both a point-in-time assessment and a performance baseline over time.

Can MyConnection Server assess readiness for Microsoft Teams and Zoom?

Yes. MyConnection Server simulates real-time media traffic and measures jitter, packet loss, latency, and capacity against the thresholds that unified-communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Webex require. You can qualify each site or remote worker before rollout and prove the network is ready to carry voice and video.

How is a network assessment different from network monitoring?

Passive monitoring watches packets or interface counters at a single point and infers health from what it sees. A network assessment actively sends real traffic across the whole path — from site to destination and back — and measures whether that traffic arrives on time and intact. MyConnection Server proves the actual user experience instead of inferring it, and can repeat the same end-to-end test continuously for ongoing assurance.

See It In Action

Assess your network the way your users actually use it

Book a demo to see MyConnection Server run a full assessment across your network, or download a free trial and start testing today.