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Agilent (News - Alert) Technologies has introduced what it claims is the industry's first audio/video coding standard (AVS) IPTV analysis and monitoring solution. Service providers and network equipment manufacturers can use the solution to accelerate development and deployment of AVS-based IPTV (News - Alert) networks and ensure the acceptable quality of service.

 

The solution is based on Agilent’s Triple Play Analyzer platform.

 

“In China, the AVS standard and its applications in IPTV have made rapid progress in recent years,” said Henry Lu, business manager of Agilent's IP Network Convergence (News - Alert) China operation, in a statement.

 

Lu continued: “However, there are still a lot of challenges in deploying AVS-based IPTV networks commercially. Using our Triple Play (News - Alert) Analyzer, network operators can proactively manage and measure the metrics that affect the end-user quality of experience across the AVS-based IPTV networks, as well as quickly identify the root cause of Quality of Service/Quality of Experience degradations. This allows network operators to deploy high-quality AVS-based IPTV services correctly -- the first time -- and increase market share and revenues.”

 

For network equipment manufacturers and communication service providers who develop, install, maintain, troubleshoot and monitor IP-based voice, video and data systems (such as IPTV and VoIP) the Agilent J6900A Triple Play Analyzer is a complete test solution. They can now act before the customers are affected and detect and resolve signaling, transport and voice/video/data quality of service and quality of experience problems.

 

With its essential measurements and key performance indicators, engineers and technicians can now identify customer-impacting issues before they become problems. The solution also empowers faster and higher-quality AVS-IPTV network deployment.

 

The AVS-IPTV measurements provided by Agilent Triple Play Analyzer include IPTV transmission layer analysis based on the RFC4445 Media Delivery Index standard; comprehensive AVS-IPTV MPEG Transport Stream analysis based on the ETSI (News - Alert) TR101-290 standard; passive AVS Video MOS (Mean Opinion Score) analysis for hundreds of IPTV/VoD streams in real-time; analysis of IPTV channel-zapping latency and VoD command response times and real-time playback of AVS-based IPTV multicast or Video/TV on-demand streams in real-time with audio.