Quality of service tester for IP networks

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has announced IPTV quality-of-service (QoS) test capabilities for its Packet Blazer Ethernet product line. This new IPTV software option, now available on the newly released FTB-8510B Ethernet Packet Blazer, offers test capabilities including media delivery index (MDI), program clock reference jitter, stream rate metrics, bandwidth utilisation and IP metrics on 255 simultaneous MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 media streams. Additionally, EXFO's IPTV offering integrates complete carrier-grade Ethernet capabilities into one product, providing customers with a powerful analysis tool for full transport-layer and service-layer testing.

The IPTV software, coupled with the FTB-8510B Packet Blazer, is housed inside EXFO's industry-leading portable modular platform, the FTB-400 Universal Test System, for field applications.

Similarly, this system is available on the IQS-500 Intelligent Test System for lab and manufacturing environments.

With the addition of IPTV test capabilities on the Packet Blazer, EXFO is extending its IPTV test capabilities from the edge into metro and core networks.

Consequently, network service providers can now rely on a single trusted source for all their IPTV testing needs to support the complete video deployment cycle from service rollout - including Ethernet transport validation - to troubleshooting and monitoring.