Ixia on Monday launched the latest release of its IPTV testing solution, Aptixia IxLoad 3.10, which assesses all aspects of IPTV service infrastructure to ensure subscribers' Quality of Experience (QoE).
Ixia's IPTV testing solution consists of IxLoad – part of Ixia's family of Aptixia applications – and Ixia's Optixia hardware test platform. The solution is part of Ixia's converged multiservices test offerings.
"As Bell Canada moves quickly to offer triple-play services to our customers, the Aptixia IxLoad test application from Ixia allows us to accurately test and verify multiple vendor network elements on a multitude of IP service offerings in our pre-deployment lab," said Dave Burns, director of IP service delivery testing at Bell Canada. "This enables us to properly groom and configure our production network prior to launching IP services, saving us time and unnecessary operational expense."
IxLoad is used by service providers and equipment manufacturers to assess different aspects of the video delivery infrastructure, including being able to:
--Determine video quality as perceived by the IPTV subscriber;
--verify the scalability of video servers to deliver multicast and on-demand content;
--assess the performance of multicast routers for broadcast IPTV delivery;
--and validate transport and access network capacity
IxLoad 3.10 adds support for several key features for IPTV testing, including:
--MPEG over RTP for both VoD and Broadcast IPTV
--MPEG-4 over MPEG-2 transport
--MPEG level frame statistics
--PPP, IPSec and DHCP for subscriber access protocol emulation
IxLoad 3.10 will be available for general release in the third quarter.
