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
- Increase Service Uptime by detecting issues before your Customers do
- 24/7 real-time supervision & alerting
- Reduce Churn
- Perceptual video quality (PVQ) assessment based on human eye modeling, to guarantee the best user experience while optimizing bandwidth costs
- Monetize your Ad Insertion services
- Secure Ad Insertion revenues by 24/7 control of all SCTE-35 triggers
- Report your SLA commitments
- Customized Quality Reports generation for SLA commitments
- Customized notifications (E-mail, Slack, Google chat…)
- Compliance 24/7 recording
Benefits
- Optimize OPEX daily operations
- Fast training for operational teams
Intuitive and easy to use User Interface, even for non technical operators - Pay as you grow with flexible licensing & deployment
architecture
High density full SW solution installed on-prem bare-metal / virtualized,
cloud AWS
- Fast training for operational teams
- Optimize Maintenance Time and Costs
- Quick investigation and problem solving: One single unified web GUI for all Services Management
- Live Thumbnail Mosaic to view the quality status of all services
- MacroService view to monitor each service throughout all network processing stages (Contribution, encoding, packaging, disctribution…) and pinpoint the issue’s root cause at a glance
- Drill down analysis, on-error proof recording
- Live streaming capabilities
- Powerful NBI/API for 3rd Party NMS integration for Orchestration
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 UI.
StreamProbe offers a user friendly web UI 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, IAT, Jitter..)
- 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, DVB-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 compliance 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
Live Streaming
- 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
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 - TSoIP LINEAR SERVICE AVAILABILITY & INTEGRITY
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ST2110-20, ST2110-30, ST2022-6
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 DriftPSI/SI repetition rates, scrambling
Bitrates: TS, service & service components, PSI/SICAS monitoring
EMM/ECM presence, repetition, bitrates; configurable alarm thresholds
FTA <-> scrambled transition monitoring: transition timing alarms with detailed graphical display - QoS - ABR SERVICE AVAILABILITY & INTEGRITY
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HLS, MPEG-DASH, DVB-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, persistence…
HTTP connection time statistics: connection, DNS redirection, upload, download
Monitoring adaptations to available network link capacity: Manifest, QoS only, Full QoS & QoE,
Round-Robin, selectable Layers - QoE - SERVICE AUDIO/VIDEO QUALITY
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Video defect detection: freeze, black, missing Intra
Video encoding information: type, pixel format, profile, level, GOP structure and size, image count and weight, width, height, aspect ratio, 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 decoding and display: HLS WebVTT and DASH TTMLUncompressed formats: ST 2110-20/30 PCM, ST 2022-6 video, SD, HD, 3G, UHD
Compressed formats: SD & HD MPEG-4 AVC/H264, 4K HEVC/H265, MPEG-2 audio/video, MPEG-1 audio, AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AACv2, AC3 Dolby Digital, EAC-3 Dolby Digital Plus
Thumbnail Mosaic view : All services view at-a-glance on a thumbnail wall, real-time update
Highly customizable per user login: grouping, audio levels, subtitles, penalty box
Monitoring by exception: display only faulty services – penalty boxMacroService view : Track service quality in several monitoring points throughout the delivery chain
Map View: Overview of the status of all your monitoring points worldwide
Thumbnail History view for OTT & VOD monitoring : ABR Service Quality overview in time: alarms timeline with associated video thumbnails
Visual tool for fault investigation on all ABR stream’s profiles, up to 7 daysPerceptual Video Quality assesment based on human eye modeling with VMAF :
Alarms based on VMAF score to optimize the encoder/transcoder configuration and find the best compromise between video compression and human eye quality perception
24/7 Perceptual quality monitoring - ABR streams DRM decryption
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CENC, Sample-AES, AES-128 – Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady
Key retrieval via direct Key Server access (proprietary, CPIX) - MONITORING CAMPAIGNS FOR VOD SERVICES
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Adapted for both static & dynamic VOD libraries
One-shot or recurrent (several hours, days, weeks..)
Monitoring modes: QoS only, QoS & QoE, QoS & QoE only the first time
ABR asset provisioning: manual (CSV import) or automatic via a dedicated API (requires specific integration services) - Recording
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Available for both TS & ABR streams
- 24/7 compliance recording
- Scheduled recording at predefined date & time
- On-error recording on fault detection
- On SCTE-35 marker recording
Preview of the recorded video in the UI: Web player with navigation capabilities (Timeline indexed by alarms or SCTE-35 markers)
Download capability (full record or partial extract of the video)
Automatic or manual export to an external NASStorage capacity to dimension depending on the bitrate capacity to monitor
Up to 10 simultaneous recording for StreamProbeIPTV HighBitrate (Total monitored bitrate >3Gbps) & StreamProbe 2110 - LIVE STREAMING
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Live streaming over low bandwidth links (transcoding)
300 kbps by default, possibility to configure the target bitrate, video resolution, audio PID selection
Web UI display or 3rd party NMS dashboard integration displayLive streaming at the original bit rate of the video via API
- AD INSERTION MONITORING
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Based on SCTE-35 SpliceInsert, TimeSignal, SNPTV AFMM v2.25
Triggers presence, integrity and timing check, log export (JSON)
Reference Frame QoE: IDR and PTS check, automatic detection of scene cut
Splice point thumbnails (50 images around the splice point)
Splice point video recording (before & after the splice point)SCTE-35 splice thumbnails extraction could be enabled for up to 15 services simutaneously with StreamProbe IPTV HighBitrate (Total monitored bitrate >3Gbps)
- Notifications & Reports
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Customizable & Flexible Monitoring strategies : configurable alarming thresholds
Per Service, Per group of services
General / Daily /Weekly Alarming Profile
History depth up to 2 years
Alarm log history export (CSV)Notifications : E-mail & Webhook (Google chat, Slack …)
Monitoring reports
Quality statistic reports in CSV or PDF format to report you SLA commitment
- System Integration & NBI
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System Integration & NBI
SNMPv2 support for alarm traps
Open API (HTTP/JSON API) for stream provisioning, monitoring scheduling and monitoring information retrieval
Service thumbnails can be retrieved via API call – for 3rd party dashboard display
Video streaming capability for 3rd party dashboard display
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- SW solution
- Bare-metal, VM (ESXi >v6.0, KVM), AWS cloud
- 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
Use cases
StreamProbe Solution Overview
Ad Insertion Monitoring
VoD Service Quality Monitoring
david –
Very good product !