The Agilent N2X multiservices test solution provides pre-deployment verification of IPTV service quality under highly scaled and dynamic triple play network conditions. It emulates thousands of dynamic IPTV subscribers and generates triple play video, voice over IP and data (high-speed internet) traffic to place significant stress on IPTV network equipment.
The product delivers real-time MDI metrics, protocol decodes and post-capture replay for IPTV traffic and addresses test challenges that triple play services impose across the core, edge and broadband access networks enabling a more complete characterisation of service quality.
Service providers and network equipment manufacturers face the challenge of converging new IP-based video services, such as IPTV and video on demand (VOD) with existing voice and data services to residential customers over a single access point. Ensuring network integrity, quality of service (QoS) and subscriber quality of experience (QoE) is critical to the success of video service deployments.
Alcatel-Lucent has chosen Agilent as a formal test and measurement partner for its IPTV ecosystem. Agilent's N2X is claimed to be the industry's most comprehensive test solution for testing the development and deployment of network services for converging network infrastructures.
Service providers, network equipment manufacturers and component manufacturers can verify service attributes of entire networks end-to-end, whilst also isolating problems down to individual networking devices and subsystems.
