[iptv-users] STB/video stream monitoring

[Kevin Shymkiw]

In all honesty, we have had alot of Finger Pointing that ended up being 
bad feeds from the source, especially since we pick up alot of our feeds 
from other Video/Cable Providers.  But without a doubt, if you have a 
video probe at your edge before you go to the Copper Plant, it makes it 
very easy to point the finger at them and have the proof to support it.

We do also seem to have alot of issues, when we are doing >6-8G of 
Multicast over some of the Cisco Cards we have deployed, so at times, 
that does come back to bite us.

Kevin

Frank Bulk wrote:
> When you have this finger-pointing, what does the problem actually end up
> being?  The vast majority of our video quality issues relate to the copper
> plant.  Only a minority have been related our transport gear's ability to
> drop the content off the DSL port.
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Moen [mailto:alexm at ndtel.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:35 AM
> To: frnkblk at iname.com
> Cc: iptv-users at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [iptv-users] STB/video stream monitoring
>
> Take a look at Ineoquest's iVMS (for transport quality monitoring) and  
> iCMS (for video/audio content quality and end-user experience  
> monitoring).  We use both of these products, and they can be both a  
> lifesaver and a "finger-pointing" resolver.
>
> http://www.ineoquest.com
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
>
>   
>> Is anyone doing any video stream error monitoring/checking from the
>> point-of-view of the STB?  I know that there is at least one vendor  
>> out
>> there, Psytechnics, that has a module it can integrate into the  
>> middleware
>> of the STB, but I haven't see IPTV middleware vendors picking that  
>> up.  I
>> know that the Amino 110 writes out some rudimentary stats to the  
>> drive.
>>
>> We track most of our video problems based on the 15-minute PM bins  
>> that our
>> transport gear's ADSL ports record, but nothing L4 and up.
>>
>> Ideally every STB would have something Psytechnic-like built in.
>>
>> Frank
>>
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