Video QoS & QoE Monitoring for IPTV – Linear Multicast
StreamProbe IPTV
StreamProbe solution provides a centralized overview of the Service Availability and Video Quality throughout all the strategic stages of the media processing & delivery flow, by 24/7 monitoring.
Ideal for all TV Service Providers & Network Operators – linear Broadcast TV, IPTV, Cable TV, Satellite TV, OTT, VOD, nPVR – Transport Contribution & Distribution and Service Platform Providers, looking to ensure the best End-User Quality of Experience all while optimizing OPEX.
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Applications
- Service oriented end-to-end Availability (QoS) and Quality (QoE) assurance
- Increase uptime by detecting issues before your customers do
By 24/7 real-time supervision & alerting - Optimize OPEX daily operation & maintenance
Drill down analysis, on-error proof recording - Quality Reports generation for SLA commitments
- Compliancy 24/7 recording
- Secure Ad Insertion revenues by 24/7 control of all SCTE-35 triggers
Benefits
- One single comprehensive & easy to use web GUI to manage a wide variety of Streams & Services
Studio, contribution, encoding, packaging, live/VOD, ad insertion, multiplexing, broadcast transport signalling…
Ready for future Services diversification
Fast training of operational teams to work with a single tool - All Services Quality view at-a-glance: Live Thumbnail Mosaic Wall
- Powerful NBI/API for 3rd Party NMS integration for Orchestration
- Pay as you grow with flexible licensing & deployment architecture
HighDensity full SW solution installed on-prem bare-metal / virtualized, cloud AWS
StreamProbe is a full software solution for Video QoS & QoE 24/7 monitoring throughout the video delivery chain from the Studio, to the Head-End Contribution down to the Encoding & Packaging.
High density & scalable, hundreds of services can be monitored in parallel within a single appliance in a all-in-one or distributed architecture, with a centralized monitoring view – one single GUI.
StreamProbe offers a user friendly web GUI with a Live Thumbnail Mosaic view – at-a-glance overall view of the entire Service Quality for real-time supervision – and service dedicated technical views for drill down root cause analysis.
The monitoring information can be exported to generate Service Availability statistics and fault history reports. Real-time notifications can be sent out to 3rd party NMS systems or by email.
QoS - Service Availability & Integrity
- Full MPEG-2 TS monitoring (SPTS/MPTS)
- IP transport issues detection (RTP, FEC)
- ETSI TR 101 290 compliancy (priority 1, 2, 3, MDI)
- TS structure: PSI/SI, service(s), bitrates
QoE - Service Audio/Video Quality
- Full content monitoring
- Audio & Video defect detection: freeze, black screen, silence
- Subtitles DVB and Teletext: decoding and display
- Video display: thumbnails & video streaming
Live Thumbnail Mosaic Wall
- All services view at-a-glance on a thumbnail wall, real-time update
- Highly customisable per user: grouping, audio levels, subtitles, penalty box
- Monitoring by exception: display only faulty services – penalty box
- MacroService view: track Service Quality in several monitoring points throught the delivery chain
- Live service streaming over low bandwidth links (service compression)
Recording
- 24/7 compliancy recording
- Proof recording on-error on fault detection
- Schedule recordings at predefined date – event recording
- Easy access to all recordings directly via the web GUI
Confidence monitoring - visual video check
- Live service streaming over low bandwidth links (transcoding)
- GUI display, with 3rd party dashboard integration/display capabilities
Control Access monitoring
- Check the scrambling information EMM/ECM: presence, repetition, bitrates
- FTA <-> scrambled transition monitoring: transition timing alarms with detailed graphical display
Ad Insertion monitoring
- Make sure the Ad Inserter receives and can use the triggers: triggers presence, integrity and timing
- Prevent video defects on the Ad Inserted stream by checking the splice point quality/integrity: IDR frames, PTS accuracy
- Make sure the triggers point the correct frame and prove the Ad Insertion: splice point thumbnails, frames analysis for automatic detection of change of scenery, video recording
System Integration & NBI
- Configurable alarming thresholds: general, daily and weekly alarm profiles configurable per service
- NMS integration: SNMPv2 support for alarm traps
- Monitoring information available via an open API (HTTP/JSON API)
- Service thumbnails & video streaming capability for 3rd party dashboard display
HighBitrate monitoring capacity
StreamProbe IPTV: up to 3Gbps of services monitored in // per Appliance (COTS, AWS, VM): full monitoring features (QoS, QoE, Video Streaming, Recording, SCTE-35, CAS, HEVC/4K)
StreamProbe IPTV HighBitrate: up to 10Gbps (1000 services) monitored in // per Appliance (COTS): QoS, QoE, SCTE-35, CAS monitoring features
Product of the Year NAB Show 2019
StreamProbe has proudly won the NAB Show 2019 Product of the Year award
MONITORING FEATURES
- QoS - Service Availability & Integrity check
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MPEG-2 TS (SPTS/MPTS)
ETSI TR 101 290 Priority 1, 2, 3
FEC support (packets recovered/lost), IP jitter
MDI: Delay Factor, Media Loss Rate, Delta (min, max, average), Drift & Period Drift
PSI/SI repetition rates, scrambling
Bitrates: TS, service & service components, PSI/SI
- QoE - Service Audio/Video Quality
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Video defect detection: freeze, black screen, missing Intra frame
Video encoding information: type, pixel format, profile, level, GOP structure and size, image count and weight, width, height, aspect ration, frame rate and type, VB delay
Audio defect detection: silence, level too low/high
Audio encoding information: type, channel number and layout, sample rate and format
Subtitles DVB and Teletext: decoding and display
Formats: MPEG-1 audio, MPEG-2 audio/video, AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AACv2, AC3 Dolby Digital, EAC-3 Dolby Digital Plus, SD & HD MPEG-4 AVC/H264, 4K HEVC/H265
- Thumbnail Mosaic view
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All services view at-a-glance on a thumbnail wall, real-time update
Highly customisable per user: grouping, audio levels, subtitles, penalty box
Monitoring by exception: display only faulty services – penalty box
MacroService view: track service quality in several monitoring points throught the delivery chain
Live service streaming over low bandwidth links (service compression)
- Recording*
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24/7 compliancy recording with predefined history depth
On-error recording on fault detection
Scheduled recording at predefined date & time
Access the recordings directly via the GUI
Preview of the recorded video
Download capability (full or partial)
Associated alarms timeline
Storage capacity to dimension depending per project
*temporary limitations for IPTV HighBitrate mode deployment: recording limited to 10 services
- Confidence monitoring
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Live service streaming over low bandwidth links (transcoding)
300kbps by default, possibility to configure the target bitrate, video resolution, audio PID
GUI display or 3rd party dashboard integration display
- CAS monitoring
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EMM/ECM presence, repetition, bitrates; configurable alarm thersholds
FTA <-> scrambled transition monitoring: transition timing alarms with detailed graphical display
- Ad Insertion monitoring*
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Based on SCTE-35 TimeSignal and SpliceInsert
Triggers presence, integrity and timing check, log export
Reference Frame QoE: IDR and PTS check
Splice point thumbnails extraction (50 images around the splice point) and frame analysis for automatic detection of change of scenery
Splice point video recording (before & after the splice point)
Configurable alarm thresholds
*temporary limitation for IPTV HighBitrate mode deployment: SCTE-35 splice thumbnails extraction limited to ~15 Services
- System Integration & NBI
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Configurable alarming thresholds: general, daily and weekly alarm profiles configurable per service
Alarm log history CSV export
SNMPv2 support for alarm traps
Monitoring information available via an open API (HTTP/JSON API)
Service thumbnails can be retrieved via API call – for 3rd party dashboard display
Video streaming capability for 3rd party dashboard display
RF INPUT SUPPORT for StreamProbe IPTV
- DVB-T/T2 DVB-C/C2
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DVB RF acquisition board PCIe:
TBS6209 8 RF channels per board
TBS6205 4 RF channels per board
- DVB-T/T2 DVB-C/C2 with descrambling
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DVB RF acquisition board PCIe TBS6290SE 2 RF channels & 2 DVB-CI CAM slots
- DVB-S/S
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DVB RF acquisition board PCIe:
TBS6909 8 RF channels per board
TBS6904 4 RF channels per board
- DVB-S/S with descrambling
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DVB RF acquisition board PCIe TBS6910 2 RF channels & 2 DVB-CI CAM slots
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- SW Appliance solution: custom Linux based custom OS
- Bare-metal, VM (ESXi >v6.0, KVM), AWS cloud
- PCIe modules can be recommended for RF signal demodulation: DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C (J.83 A,B,C) - for StreamProbe IPTV
- Maximum Appliance monitoring capacity: 10Gbps for StreamProbe IPTV (HighBitrate mode, 3Gbps for legacy mode)
- Performance CPU, RAM, HDD depending on the bitrate capacity to monitor
Use cases
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StreamProbe is one of the best product able to monitor IPTV so far.