IneoQuest Technologies Inc. has unveiled IQPinPoint, a video quality management package aimed at helping service providers lower the operating expenses associated with IPV video service rollouts.
IQPinPoint enables service providers to monitor and analyze thousands of video streams simultaneously across all network sub-systems enabling a live, real-time, multi-dimensional view of network quality.
Because of the elaborate nature of the end-to-end ecosystems needed to deliver video services, such as IPTV, test and measurement companies have been racing to develop systems that span all network components to provide deployers a complete picture.
Other testing vendors first focused on the health of the delivery network, but early IP providers often found that their service wasn’t working as planned even though the infrastructure was. This necessitated expensive truck rolls and the development of quality assurance systems that focused on the quality of the actual video service as well.
Jeff Heynen, directing analyst for broadband and IPTV at Infonetics Research, agrees that the requirement is for a broad system that analyzes, predicts and resolves IP video issues anywhere in the network including at the program layer.
IneoQuest said its new offering is designed specifically for reducing network operational expenses using multi-dimensional monitoring and analysis technology. IQPinPoint integrates the the vendor’s current iVMS IP Video Management System and associated probes into a unified, real-time view of video network performance from the headend to the set-top box.
The vendor said IQPinPoint is comprised of the company’s newly enhanced Cricket family of intelligent video network probe, its Singulus line of 1GigE and 10GigE probes, and its iVMS.
The package’s physical transport coverage includes cable, Ethernet, HPNA, xDSL and wireless. In separate but related news, the firm announced a package covering wireless technologies.
IneoQuest’s new portfolio of network probes includes interfaces such as Ethernet, ADSL2/2+, VDSL, HPNA, WiFi, 3G and QAM. The vendor said it plans to support the 4G wireless broadband service WiMAX as well as the new video broadcast technologies MediaFlo and DVB-H at an unspecified point later this year.
IneoQuest Technologies Inc. www.ineoquest.com
