Cricket™ Family

Cricket Products – Goes Everywhere!

Remote Video Quality Monitor and Troubleshooting Tool

for your Networks – with MPEG Analysis for free

Overview

The Cricket family of probes offers the most powerful, cost effective remote video quality monitors and service assurance troubleshooting tools available in the industry today. Video network operators that need to analyze, debug and resolve video quality and MPEG errors now have a full range of support needed for various interfaces. Designed for use in monitoring and troubleshooting either at the headend, central office or at the side of the house, the family of Crickets is perfect for automatically monitoring each service group for quality issues. Each Cricket provides a means to connect to either Ethernet, QAM, 8-VSB, ASI, HPNA or Wireless, where they continuously scan for layer 1 issues in addition to flows / programs in compliance with DVB TR101 290 priority 1, 2, 3 monitoring, analysis and capture.

The Cricket family integrates with iVMS™ which correlates information from all IneoQuest probes where it logs 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

Troubleshoot network quality issues at the QAM Ethernet, 8-VSB, ASI, HPNA or Wireless interface
Measure and analyze video content in real-time
Remotely monitor, troubleshoot and capture MPEG Transport Streams
Validate layer 1 problems
Service group monitoring

Global Features

Integrates with IQ iVMS Video Management System for Remote Monitoring
Supports IQMediaAnalyzerPro for remote/local analysis and capture
DVB TR 101 290 MPEG analysis standard
Real-time media loss measurements of video flows
Remote trigger capture for deferred-time analysis
10/100MB Fast Ethernet management interface
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
PC connection; Ethernet (In-band or Out-of-Band) or USB

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 interfaces including QAM, ASI, 8-VSB, HPNA, Wireless, 100Mb, 1GE and 10GE test and monitoring tools that fit every need of the IPTV/IP Video network operation.

Cricket Family Overview

Ethernet

2 x 10/100 Ethernet ports

TAP functionality

User button (visual impairment)

10 simultaneous video stream analysis

ASI

75 Ohm connector

Support for 50Mb/s MPEG2-TS

Simultaneous program analysis up to 128 PIDs

8-VSB

RF Interface

Auto scan and discovery of 8-VSB service

Real-time media loss measurements of video flows

Remote confidence analysis with IQTv

Reed-Solomon errors, corrected and uncorrected

HPNA

F-type coax connectors (pass through to settop)

HPNA v3.1

HPNA diagnostics supported

HPNA to Ethernet bridge functionality for easy set-top connection

Wireless

3G – HSDPA

3G – 1xEV-DO

WiFi

QAM Support

F Type coax connector

RF signal-to-noise ratio monitoring & alarming

Reed-Solomon error (corrected / uncorrected) alarming

Auto-learn RF channels

Tuner signal loss alarm

QAM U.S.

Supported standards

- SCTE DVS-031

- ITU-J.83B

- DOCSIS 64/256 QAM demod with FEC

QAM modes compliant with labeling for

- Digital TV – Cable Connect

- Digital TV – Cable Interactive

100 Pre-defined aliases

Display Reed-Soloman Errors, corrected and uncorrected

Display SNR

Scans RF channels for loss of QAM

Simultaneous program analysis (1,500 PIDs)

Supports SD / HD over SPTS and MPTS

QAM Eur/Asia

Supported standards

- DVB-C (All Modes)

- ITU-J.83A

- ITU-J.83C

Supports 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 point constellations

100 pre-defined aliases

Simultaneous program analysis (128 PIDs

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

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