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2008-09-22
SeaChange Certifies Shenick’s Unique Technology to Test QoE of Video-On-Demand Streams
SeaChange and Shenick Help Customers Meet Subscriber
Expectations for High Quality VOD
Burlingame, Calif., – September 22, 2008 -
Shenick Network Systems, provider of per-flow IP communications test and
monitoring systems, announced that its diversifEye per-flow architecture has
been certified by SeaChange International as the only test product to provide a
uniquely flexible platform to emulate and measure each individual
video-on-demand (VoD) client behind residential gateways. With Shenick’s
diversifEye™, SeaChange’s telco and cable operator customers can quantify the
quality of every video watched to help them meet subscribers’ high expectations
for quality of experience (QoE).
Shenick’s diversifEye enables complete functional and scalability testing of
the VoD delivery architecture for customers of SeaChange’s Axiom On Demand open
content delivery platform. The technology simulates set-top boxes with
VoD real-time streaming (RTSP) clients that are compliant with SeaChange video
servers. Using diversifEye enables SeaChange customers to have the flexibility
to perform stateful, functional and scalability testing of both the control
plane and media plane architecture of the VoD solution and also to quantify the
effect of mixed traffic environments on the quality of video flows right up to
thousands of users at 10Gigabit Ethernet levels.
“We moved from VoD being used by early adopters to becoming a mainstream
application used in tens of millions of homes and the challenge faced by
service providers is that consumers have set an extremely high threshold level
for the expected quality of video flows. Even one customer disrupted is
one customer too many,” said Robert Winters, chief marketing officer, Shenick
Network Systems. “It is not sufficient for a service provider to measure
aggregate service quality in their predeployment tests, it’s become necessary
to be able to quantify the quality of the video offering for each subscriber.
Shenick’s diversifEye can help triple play providers to view individual
subscriber service quality on a highly granular basis.”
“SeaChange is focused on continuously improving operators’ performance and
bottom line and Shenick’s capabilities add further assurances of service
quality, especially as subscriber use of VOD continues to grow,” said Alan
Hoff, senior director of on-demand solutions, SeaChange International.
“Shenick’s per flow architecture gives us a new means to see how networks
perform up to 10 Gigabit speeds and also provides a microscopic view on the impact
that network flows have on subscriber quality of experience.”
Shenick’s diversifEye is being used
internationally by companies who specialize in VoD delivery. It enables
both active and passive analysis. Passive analysis applies real-time
analysis to any video stream. Active analysis goes one step further to
compare the source media stream and subscriber received stream for
discrepancies. In addition, Shenick’s per-flow architecture enables very
granular control of the signaling processes and equally granular per-flow
measurement capability meaning that each individual entity can be concurrently
configured, controlled and measured.
About Shenick Network
Systems
Shenick is an award winning provider of IP communications test and performance
monitoring systems. Shenick’s solutions enable converged IP network service
providers to test and monitor the complete service delivery life cycle from lab
to live deployment. Established in 2000, Shenick has deployed its diversifEye™,
diversifEye10G™ and servicEye™ integrated network, application and security
attack emulation and performance monitoring systems throughout North and South
America, Europe, Asia and Africa. IP-oriented network service providers,
communications equipment manufacturers, large enterprise and governments rely
on Shenick's diversifEye to assess their network, application and security
infrastructure performance limitations. Shenick's diversifEye addresses key
next-generation converged network and application performance issues covering
IPTV, VoD, Triple Play (VoIP video, data), IMS, Security Attack Mitigation,
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Traffic Shaping, Peer to Peer (P2P), Application
Server, Metro Ethernet and IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network deployments.
For more information
contact:
Shenick Network Systems
Robert Winters (Chief Marketing Officer)
Email: robert.winters@shenick.com
Tel: +353 1 236 7002
Aoife Kimber
KimberPR
Email: akimber@kimberpr.com
Tel: + 1 650 773 7288