Shenick Enhances diversifEye Testing Software for Triple-Play and IPTV Services

By Laura Stotler

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Shenick Network Systems has announced IPTV (News - Alert) and triple-play enhancements to its diversifEye Version 3.0 software. diversifEye tests overall performance and QoS and can drill down to each IPTV, VoIP and Internet user to make an accurate quality of experience assessment. The functionality is packaged in a single box test system.

 

The new features include enhanced IPTV test, video quality analysis and the addition of VoIP, DHCP and PPPoE protocols. They enable Shenick customers to test critical IPTV, triple-play and broadband services for performance and quality issues through a single system. The diversifEye software handles broadband customer access scenarios from obtaining an IP address through DHCP to establishing PPP tunnels via emulation of real user application traffic flows of multiple IPTV, VoIP, voice over data and other data applications like email, P2P and Web services.

 

The company will also support real-time or passive IPTV video quality analysis on a per IPTV channel basis along with active video analysis against a known reference video stream. These new features enable IPTV service providers to assess video quality on an aggregate or per viewer basis through industry standard perceptual quality scoring based on the ITU J.144 standard with IP based video extensions such as V-Factor and PEVQ (perceptual evaluation of video quality).

 

Real VoIP call generation with support for the SIP protocol enables customers to assess how each application will behave under live operational conditions in a converged triple play environment. The diversifEye security attack module also offers simulation of DDoS (Denial of Service), virus, worm and spam attacks as well as VoIP (SIP) and IPTV (IGMP) attacks.

 

"Shenick is one of the first companies to anticipate and address the many new real-world deployment issues that the emergence of triple play brought to IP communications," said Sankara Jambulingam, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "We are delighted to award Shenick the Frost & Sullivan Communications Test & Measurement Emerging Company of the Year for 2006."

 

"Anyone responsible for deploying high quality IPTV and triple play services of voice, data and video needs to be concerned with overall converged IP network performance and the individual customer quality of experience," said Robert Winters, chief marketing officer, Shenick Network Systems. "Today network resources are being stretched to cope with shared standard and high definition IPTV, video on demand services along with a mix of high speed internet data application and of course, VoIP. Companies rolling out new IP services need to understand their limitations and Shenick's diversifEye provides all the necessary tools to increase confidence levels."