Ensure IPTV QoS and IPTV QoE With Network Performance Management and Application Performance Management
Overview
Telecommunication service providers looking to offer Internet Protocol television (IPTV) can successfully compete with cable TV providers only if they are able to guarantee similar quality of service (QoS) and an equivalent end-user quality of experience (QoE). These coveted end users have high expectations for picture and sound quality and are unlikely to switch from cable to IPTV—despite IPTV’s potential to deliver more content, functionality and interactivity than traditional TV—if the IPTV’s QoS is inferior.
To address these challenges, IPTV providers must be able to:
- Proactively measure and eliminate channel zapping delays where end users notice delays in service while changing channels
- Overcome network bandwidth constraints and meet speed requirements associated with delivering quality IPTV as part of a multicast service (simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations over a single network) or converged IP-based triple play service (voice, Internet access, and TV)
- Test, monitor and ensure the performance and capacity of the packet-switched network infrastructure over which the IPTV service and/or multi-play services must travel, as well as test and monitor the performance of the services themselves
Adapt service delivery/transport methods to the infrastructure requirements of different geographies in order to penetrate new or untapped markets
InfoVista offers end-to-end quality assurance of your IPTV service delivery path via network performance management, service management and application performance management tools that help IPTV providers to overcome these obstacles. We have solutions to proactively ensure your IP multicast deployments, IP/MPLS and broadband Internet infrastructures, and data center and application environment.
Key Features
InfoVista solutions for IPTV network performance management and application performance management provide:
- The ability to monitor quality at the IGMP registration point (through 5View™ IPTV), furnishing your organization with the complete picture in terms of multicast quality of experience from an end-user perspective
- Faster troubleshooting—the data provided by 5View ITPV enables your operations team to pinpoint and resolve problems faster
- Easy, real-time access to the information your engineering and capacity planning teams need to ensure the overall end user experience and plan for growth
- Carrier-class scalability—a single 5View IPTV appliance is capable of monitoring 100 channels simultaneously, and multiple appliances can be easily deployed, if needed
- The ability to track channel status in real-time by supplying all relevant quality metrics and alarming on various channel and stream states including program started, and traffic stopped or restarted
- Support for MPEG2 and MPEG4 standards, as well as reporting on channel and stream statistics based on TR 101 290
- Detailed, proactive, end-to-end visibility into performance, capacity, and service levels across large, multivendor, IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet infrastructures (through VistaInsight® for Networks) and broadband domains (through the Broadband Knowledge Pack)
- Unified visibility into the health of all servers—physical and virtual—through one top-down management console (VistaInsight® for Servers), with flexible grouping by application, OS, business group, customer, geography, and more
