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IneoQuest Assists Microsoft®
Mediaroom™ Development And Deployment With Advanced Monitoring And
Troubleshooting Capabilities
Other Topics: IPTV
HD DVR
IneoQuest
September 14, 2009
New Editions of IQDialogue™ IPTV Mediaroom™ Bring Service
Providers Easy Test and Data Collection to the Field; Greater
Analysis and Troubleshooting to Mediaroom Network Equipment
Manufacturers and Service Providers
Mansfield, MA -- IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., the leader in High
Availability video programming solutions and global provider of
advanced quality and service assurance solutions for digital video,
today announced the availability of two solutions that now bring
complete monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for Microsoft®
Mediaroom™, from development and lab trials to full scale market
deployment. IneoQuest’s new IQDialogue™ IPTV Mediaroom™ Installer
Edition enables service providers to easily verify turn-up and
investigate issues in the field. In addition, IneoQuest has also
upgraded its IQDialogue™ IPTV Mediaroom™ Advanced Edition for
greater analysis and troubleshooting for Mediaroom development. With
these products, IneoQuest is helping to improve Mediaroom Quality of
Service (QoS) across the entire delivery chain and enable its
customers to meet subscriber demands. |
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Unlike other test and turn-up
solutions available, IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Installer Edition is
designed and optimized specifically for field use. With easy
installation on any Windows laptop and an intuitive user interface,
IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Installer Edition allows service providers
to quickly and economically monitor, test and collect data about
Microsoft Mediaroom deployments for IPTV, video-on-demand (VOD), and
multi-room DVR services.
By monitoring IP traffic across these Mediaroom services, IQDialogue
IPTV Mediaroom Installer Edition provides simple pass/fail results,
as well as quick and accurate fault identification, for
troubleshooting. With all measurements and data saved, including
channel change timing, packet loss and Instant Channel Change (ICC)
signaling, deeper analysis can be conducted by tier 2/3 technicians
for issues detected. Leveraging the sophisticated analysis provided
by IneoQuest’s IPTV Mediaroom Advanced Edition, service providers
can analyze the field data and remediate issues like packet loss,
D-Server communication issues, capacity problems, R-UDP fulfillment
efficiency, and status messages.
In addition to providing the full-scale analysis for deployment
technicians, IneoQuest’s IPTV Mediaroom Advanced Edition has been
greatly expanded to provide Microsoft researchers and developers,
its partners, and service providers’ central operations staff with
significantly advanced analysis and testing, monitoring, and
troubleshooting capabilities. For example, IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom
Advanced Edition now goes beyond simple IPTV services to include
expanded application coverage for Microsoft VOD transactions,
protocols and transport; Microsoft in-home services, including
multi-room DVR, signaling and status protocols; and the
soon-to-be-available HomePNA testing.
IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom
Advanced Edition also now supports all Microsoft RTP Header
Extensions decoding, provides a Microsoft set-top box (STB) boot-up
analyzer and addresses NTP decoding and analysis. These new features
expand the tool’s previous ability to monitor and measure channel
change timing, packet loss, Instant Channel Change (ICC) signaling,
and many other parameters (R-UDP, IGMP, DHCP, etc.) allowing for
quick and accurate fault identification and troubleshooting.
“IPTV technology is advancing rapidly with additional services and
increased adoption, making development and deployment even more
complex. To bring the best in quality to subscribers, every point
along the delivery chain must be able to proactively monitor,
analyze and troubleshoot,” said Gino Dion, vice president of
strategic solutions at IneoQuest. “Microsoft is one of the leaders
in IPTV development and IneoQuest remains committed to providing a
wide range of support tools for improving Mediaroom quality.
IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Installer and Advanced Editions illustrate
our continued focus on providing technology to help improve digital
video quality.”
About IneoQuest Technologies
IneoQuest
Technologies, Inc., the leader in High Availability video
programming solutions, is a global provider of advanced quality and
service assurance solutions for digital video, serving customers in
the telephony, cable, broadcast and network equipment industries
worldwide. The company enables its customers to design, build,
deploy and manage digital video networks with unique combinations of
hardware, software, and services. Headquartered in Mansfield,
Massachusetts,
IneoQuest
has sales operations in the North American, European, Asian, and
Latin American regions. More information is available at
www.IneoQuest.com. |
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