Cricket™ Ethernet

 

Video Edge Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tool for 10/100Mb Ethernet Interfaces

 

APPLICATIONS

• Ethernet edge confidence monitoring
• Debug and troubleshoot video edge on ethernet interfaces
• Measure MDI IP flows performance
• IGMP measurements and performance
• Validate MPEG transport stream
• Measure and analysis video content in real-time

 

KEY FEATURES

• Integrates with iVMS™ Video Management System
• Real-time media loss measurements of transport stream
• Remote confidence analysis with IQtv™ remote video verification system
• 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet management interface
• 75 Ohm BNC coax connector
• Support for 150Mb/s MPEG2-TS
• Supports SD/HD over SPTS and MPTS
• Supports MPEG2, H.264 / MPEG4-Part 10, MPEG4-part 2, VC1 flows
• 80 MB video record/capture buffer
• Analysis to the PID level
• MPEG analysis TR101- 290 support with offline analysis using IQTSxPro & IQDVx
•  Customizable alarms/field upgradeable
• Inband/out-of-band monitoring control
• USB support for field technician
• User feedback controls

 

OVERVIEW

 

Cricket IP is a powerful cost-effective 10/100Mb Ethernet Video quality and service assurance monitoring and troubleshooting probe for operators that need to monitor, analyze and debug at the video edge or customer premise for IP and MPEG transport quality. Cricket IP is perfect for monitoring at the network edge by providing continuous monitoring of up to 10 Unicast or Multicast flows with deep MPEG packet inspection. Integrating iVMS™ correlates information from all IneoQuest probes in the network with all real-time measurements that Cricket IP is logging, and notifies the network operations center (NOC) of any problems. Alerted to a specific video edge and customer premise fault, the service provider can be proactive in correcting the situation, potentially leading to reduced call center traffic volume.

 

Cricket IP

Complete Edge Monitoring and Analysis Capabilities

 

Cricket IP features a 10/100Mb interface that can be configured for inband or out-ofband control. Cricket IP is ideal for debug and analysis of Unicast and Muticast flows and is able to issue multicast joins and measure IGMP performance in real-time. The 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet connection allows an IP communication path to IQMediaAnalyzerPro, the web configuration interface and the IneoQuest iVMS™ Video Management System for seamless monitoring from the headend to home. Combined with the iVMS, Cricket IP in addition to the rest of the IneoQuest portfolio provides the most advanced IPTV Quality and Service Assurance solution available.