GOAL Manufacturers will get a chance to have their equipment tested in typical application scenarios under conditions which are exactly the same for all participating manufacturers. Instrumental tests will be performed. Manufacturers will obtain detailed, individual test report including detailed advise on how to improve their future product before it goes on the market. The event will stand out as it will produce rigorous, reproducible and comparable results for speech quality. Each participating manufacturer will get a time slot of 3 days in this period.
Tests are single-vendor tests.
At ETSI premises in Sophia Antipolis, France, located between Nice and Cannes on the French Riviera . In testing blocks that will be the same for all participating manufacturers, they learn how their equipment behaves as a function of packet loss, delay, and jitter for various parameter settings of their equipment. In addition, each company will have the possibility in a 'free-style' testing block to choose specific test conditions. Each manufacturer will receive the evaluation results of its specific equipment under test after the event. In order to guarantee realistic test conditions, dummy heads will simulate both subscribers and their typical behavior.