Score whether a network is ready for a new service across bandwidth, latency, jitter, loss, QoS and redundancy.
Each transport characteristic is normalised onto its own weighted band against thresholds real-time services actually need, then summed. Loss is weighted most aggressively per unit because a fraction of a percent is enough to make voice and video unusable even when bandwidth is abundant. New services fail on jitter and loss far more often than on bandwidth, so an assessment that only checks megabits gives false confidence before a rollout.
Network Readiness Assessment
readiness = bandwidth ratio (30) + latency score (20) + jitter score (20) + loss score (15) + QoS (10) + redundancy (5).
readiness = bandwidth ratio (30) + latency score (20) + jitter score (20) + loss score (15) + QoS (10) + redundancy (5). Each transport characteristic is normalised onto its own weighted band against thresholds real-time services actually need, then summed. Loss is weighted most aggressively per unit because a fraction of a percent is enough to make voice and video unusable even when bandwidth is abundant.
New services fail on jitter and loss far more often than on bandwidth, so an assessment that only checks megabits gives false confidence before a rollout.
This calculator takes 7 inputs: Available bandwidth, Bandwidth the service requires, Measured one-way latency, Measured jitter, Measured packet loss, End-to-end QoS marking and queuing in place, Redundant path available. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.