Microsoft: Microsoft Adds IneoQuest Quality of Service Assurance Solutions to Microsoft Mediaroom
With the help of Agilent and IneoQuest, consumer interest
and adoption of Microsoft Mediaroom services will continue to accelerate. The
platform, which reached 1 million subscriber homes in the first quarter of
2008, is now powering connected TV services on more than 2 million TV sets
worldwide. Microsoft Mediaroom took 18 months to reach its first million TVs,
and only five months to reach its second million, a rate of more than three
times faster. A key component of the Microsoft Mediaroom ecosystem,
service assurance solutions enable up-to-the-minute monitoring and analyzing of
Microsoft Mediaroom-powered services. With the Agilent and IneoQuest solutions,
service providers have a more effective way to quickly detect and resolve QoS
issues, which can ultimately help reduce operating costs. Specific measurement
and performance indicators Agilent and IneoQuest’s solutions will provide
include the following: “As world-class leaders in QoS solutions, Agilent and
IneoQuest bring exceptional service assurance solutions to the Microsoft
Mediaroom ecosystem,” said Joe Seidel, director of global partner ecosystems
for Microsoft Mediaroom. “Through these collaborations, Mediaroom service
providers will be able to more easily prevent, identify and troubleshoot issues
and help ensure the seamless delivery of next-generation TV offerings.” Agilent’s service assurance solution for Microsoft Mediaroom
is its J6900A Triple Play Analyzer. This solution is a complete test solution
for network equipment manufacturers and communication service providers that
develop, install, maintain, troubleshoot and monitor IP-based voice, video and
data systems. It is an ideal tool for detecting and resolving signaling,
transport, platform and general quality of experience problems before customers
can be affected. It also provides the essential measurements and key
performance indicators that enable engineers and technicians to quickly and
proactively identify customer issues before they become problems, resulting in
faster and higher-quality IPTV network deployments. IneoQuest’s IQPinPoint™ is a video quality and service assurance solution, integrating the award-winning IneoQuest iVMS™ video management system with the multi-interface Cricket™ family, the 1 GigE and 10 GigE Singulus™ family, and 1 GigE and 10 GigE Geminus™ family of intelligent hardware probes. iVMS, with strategically placed hardware probes throughout the network, provides true end-to-end quality monitoring from video source to subscriber. Its patented multidimensional quality assurance technology ensures the highest possible quality of video experience for Microsoft Mediaroom customers. The intelligent IQPinPoint solution provides revenue assurance through essential real-time monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting and auditing of thousands of simultaneous video flows for critical network parameters including IP packet loss, video bit rates, channel change parameters and round-trip server latency.
About Microsoft Mediaroom The award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol
Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform is driving the future of
television by enabling broadband service providers to deliver new connected TV
and entertainment experiences to consumers worldwide. Microsoft Mediaroom
provides new ways for consumers to experience TV as part of their connected,
digital lifestyle while also creating new business opportunities for broadband
service providers, hardware manufacturers, content creators, advertisers and
application developers. Over 20 of the world’s leading service providers across
four continents have selected the Microsoft Mediaroom platform to drive their
digital TV services. More information on Microsoft Mediaroom and the
opportunity to deliver the best in TV plus all your media in one place is
available at http://www.microsoft.com/tv
and http://www.microsoftmediaroom.com. About Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide
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