Cricket™ QAM

Cricket™ QAM – Goes the Last Mile

Remote Video Quality Monitor and Troubleshooting Tool for QAM Networks – with MPEG Analysis Standard

Overview

Cricket QAM is a powerful, remote video quality monitor and service assurance troubleshooting tool for Video network operators that need to analyze, debug and resolve video quality and MPEG issues in the QAM network. Designed for use in monitoring and troubleshooting either at the headend, CO or at the side of the house, Cricket QAM is perfect for automatically monitoring each service group within an RF network for quality issues. Continuous scanning of the QAM channels quickly alerts operators to RF outages and the included TR 101 290 priority 1, 2, 3 MPEG analysis feature identifies and resolves MPEG issues fast and efficiently. Integrating with iVMS™ correlates information from all IneoQuest probes in the network with all ongoing measurements that QAM Cricket is logging and notifies the network operations center (NOC) of any problems. Alerted to a specific fault at a specific service group, the service provider can be proactive in correcting the situation, reducing call center traffic volume.

Applications

• Remotely monitor and troubleshoot MPEG issues
• Troubleshoot network quality issues at the QAM
• Validate QAM frequencies
• Measure and analyze video content in real-time
• Service group monitoring

Key Features

• Integrates with IQ iVMS Video Management System
• TR101 290 MPEG analysis standard
• Real-time media loss measurements of video flows
• Remote Trigger Capture for Deferred-Time Analysis
• ATSC Compliant 8VSB demodulation and FEC
• SCTE DVS-031, ITU-j.83B and DOCSIS compliant
• Supports both QAM 64 and 256
• Supports RF Channel 1~134 per EIA-542
• Supports RF Frequency 54 MHz to 852 MHz
• Display Reed-Soloman Errors, corrected and uncorrected
• Display SNR
• 10/100MB Fast Ethernet management interface
• Scans RF channels for Loss of QAM
• Supports SD / HD over SPTS and MPTS
• Supports MPEG2, H.264/MPEG4-Part 10, MPEG4-part 2, VC1 flows
• Analysis to the PID level
• Customizable alarms / field upgradeable

Remote Video Quality Debug with TR 101 290 Priority 1, 2, 3 MPEG Analysis Standard

QAM Cricket features a RF interface for debug and analysis of Video flows, SPTS or MPTS inside a QAM. In addition, the QAM Cricket provides useful RF metrics of the RF network. The 10/100 Fast Ethernet connection allows an IP communication path to IQMediaAnalyzerPro, the web configuration interface and the IneoQuest iVMS Video Management System for seamless monitoring of the QAM network health from headend to home. Combined with the iVMS, QAM Cricket in addition to the rest of the IneoQuest portfolio provides the most advanced Video Quality and Service Assurance solution available.

The compact, rugged design makes QAM Cricket the perfect Video quality probe for QAM networks

QAM Cricket offers an RF interface, 10/100 Ethernet and plug & play USB with TR 101 290 MPEG analysis built-in at no additional cost

Test Solutions from the Headend to the Home

From headend to the home, IneoQuest provides the IPTV/IP Video quality analysis and troubleshooting solutions with RF, 10-100Mb, 1 and 10 GigE test tools that fit every need of the IPTV/IP Video network operation.