Cricket™ 8-VSB

8-VSB Broadcast Monitoring and MPEG Troubleshooting Tool

Overview

Cricket™ 8-VSB is a video quality and service assurance troubleshooting tool for 8VSB broadcasters needing to verify and debug their digital terrestrial service. Cricket detects and decodes 8VSB signals, providing remote verification of the RF and MPEG transport stream layer as well as quality verification and troubleshooting of the video and audio payload. Continuous scanning of the 8VSB signal discovers all channels and quickly alerts operators to RF outages and MPEG issues. Multiple Crickets can provide visibility throughout the entire broadcast network when integrated with the IneoQuest iVMS Video Monitoring System.

Applications

• Confidence monitoring of 8VSB broadcast signal
• Verification and troubleshooting of studio to transmitter link and RF coverage area
• Cost effective solution for 24/7 unattended off air monitoring

Key Features

• Auto scan and discovery of 8VSB services
• Tunes to any UHF/VHF channel
• Real-time media loss measurements of video flows
• Remote confidence analysis with IQtv™
• Displays signal-to-noise and Reed-Solomon errors, corrected and uncorrected
• 10/100 MB Fast Ethernet management interface
• Supports SD / HD over SPTS and MPTS
• Video record / capture buffer
• Analysis and monitoring to the PID level
• MPEG analysis TR101-290 via IQTsxPro
• Customizable alarms / field upgradeable
• USB connector for local operation with PC
• Seamless integration with iVMS monitoring system enables network wide confidence monitoring

8VSB Cricket - Video Quality Assurance and Debug for the Digital Broadcast Network

Cricket 8-VSB features a RF interface for debug and analysis of video flows, SPTS or MPTS, inside the 8VSB signal. Using an external 8-VSB antenna signals can be taken directly off-air. In addition, Cricket 8-VSB provides useful RF metrics to enable monitoring 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 seamles broadcast network health monitoiring from master control to transmitter. Combined with the iVMS™, Cricket 8-VSB, in addition to the rest of the IneoQuest portfolio, provide the most advanced digital video broadcast quality and service assurance solution available.

Test Solutions Anywhere in the Network

Whether its 8VSB, ASI, Ethernet, QAM or wireless interfaces, IneoQuest provides the video quality analysis and troubleshooting solutions that fit every need of the digital video broadcast network operation.

The compact, rugged design makes 8VSB Cricket the perfect Video quality probe for today's Digital Broadcast Networks

8VSB 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.