Video QoS & QoE Monitoring Solution
StreamProbe End-to-End Monitoring Solution
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
- End-to-end Availability (QoS) and Quality (QoE) for all Video Services
- Increase uptime by detecting issues before your customers do
By 24/7 real-time supervision & alerting - Secure Ad Insertion revenues by 24/7 control of all SCTE-35 triggers
- Optimize daily operation & maintenance
Drill down analysis, on-error proof recording - Quality Reports generation for SLA commitments
- Compliancy 24/7 recording
Benefits
- One single unified web GUI for all Services Management
Contribution, encoding, packaging, transport, linear, VOD
Fast training of operational teams - All Services Quality view at-a-glance: Live Thumbnail Mosaic Wall
- Pay as you grow with flexible licensing & deployment architecture
HighDensity full SW solution
Centralized or distributed architecture, bare metal, virtualized, on-prem, 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
- Uncompressed formats ST2110 & 2022-6 (SDIoIP)
- 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
QoS - ABR Service Availability & Integrity
- Full HLS, MPEG-DASH monitoring (Playlist and all Layers)
- HTTP connection quality
- Download quality metrics (CDN, Origin)
- Adaptations to available network link capacity: Playlist or QoS only, Round-Robin, selectable Layers
QoE - Service Audio/Video Quality
- Full content monitoring (all TS services and ABR profiles)
- Audio & Video defect detection: freeze, black screen, silence
- TS Subtitles DVB and Teletext: decoding and display
- ABR Subtitles HLS WebVTT and DASH TTML: 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
- For both TS & ABR streams
Confidence monitoring - visual video check
- Live service streaming over low bandwidth links (transcoding)
- GUI display, with 3rd party dashboard integration/display capabilities
- For TS streams
Control Access monitoring
- Check the scrambling information EMM/ECM: presence, repetition, bitrates
- FTA <-> scrambled transition monitoring: transition timing alarms with detailed graphical display
DRM support
- ABR streams decryption capabilities
- Via direct Key Server access (proprietary, CPIX)
- Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady (CENC, Sample-AES, AES-128)
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 and PTS
- Make sure the triggers point the correct frame and prove the Ad Insertion: splice point thumbnails & 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
Product of the Year NAB Show 2022
StreamProbe has proudly won the NAB Show 2022 Product of the Year award
Product of the Year NAB Show 2019
StreamProbe has proudly won the NAB Show 2019 Product of the Year award
MONITORING FEATURES
- QoS - TS Service Availability & Integrity check
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MPEG-2 TS (SPTS/MPTS)
ETSI TR 101 290 Priority 1, 2, 3
IP network monitoring : RTP, FEC, Jitter, Packet inter-arrival time …
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
- QoS - ABR Service Availability & Integrity check
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HLS, MPEG-DASH: playlist integrity & network performance check
Manifest integrity check, content display & download
Profile information: availability, type, bitrate statistics, codec, resolution, base and relative URL, playlist content/format, chunk number, media sequence, presistence…
Chunk HTTP information: availability, length, bitrate statistics, playlist format
HTTP connection time statistics: connection, DNS redirection, upload, download
- 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
Subtitles HLS WebVTT : 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
For both TS & ABR streams
Storage capacity to dimension depending per project
*temporary limitations for IPTV HighBitrate mode deployment: recording limited to 10 services
- Confidence monitoring - TS streams
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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
- DRM support
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ABR streams decryption capabilities
Via direct Key Server access (proprietary, CPIX)
CENC, Sample-AES, AES-128 – Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady
- Ad Insertion monitoring*
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Based on SCTE-35 TimeSignal on TS streams
Triggers presence, integrity and timing check, log export
Reference Frame QoE: IDR and PTS check
Splice point thumbnails (50 images around the splice point)
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
- 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 solution: Linux OS or VM (ESXi >v6.0, KVM), AWS
- Performance CPU, RAM, HDD depending on the bitrate capacity to monitor
- Maximum Appliance monitoring capacity: 100Gbps for StreamProbe 2110, 10Gbps for StreamProbe IPTV, 1Gbps for StreamProbe OTT & VOD
- Supporte input(s): 1Gbps IP ports, RF demodulation boards (PCIe)
Use cases
StreamProbe Solution
Ad Insertion Monitoring
david –
Very good product !