Advanced Quality Monitoring, Analysis, and Test System for Digital Video Networks

The Geminus^® G1-T platform is the "Swiss Army Knife" of video quality monitoring, analysis, and test. The Geminus G1-T hardware is a multi-functional platform for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting, test and measurement of video networks. The Geminus G1-T connects to the video network through a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and provides either network traffic generation (Stimulus) or monitoring and analysis. Based on reconfigurable technology , the Geminus G1-T allows the user to configure the hardware into alternate modes of operation. The Geminus G1-T can be configured as an advanced development and troubleshooting platform or a simple remote video monitoring platform. The user can easily switch operational modes using a web page interface.

Applications

• Field troubleshooting, engineering and remote debugging of advanced 1 Gigabit Ethernet digital video networks
• Real-time network monitoring and fault isolation
• Video network design & engineering
• Multi-functional IP Video streaming generation test source

Monitoring and Analysis Features

• Real-time monitoring and measurements of IP video
• Supports MDI (RFC #4445)
• Provides analysis and deep packet inspection of IP and MPEG
• Monitoring and analysis to the transport stream PID level
• Record and playback IP and MPEG video problems with an 80Mb Trigger/Capture buffer
• Supports MPEG2, MPEG4 Part 2, MPEG4 Part 10 /H.264, H263, H261, DC II, VC1 & WinMedia 9
• Supports up to 256 video flows simultaneously and continuously
• Supports Unicast, Broadcast, and Multicast IP flows
• IGMP Joins/Leaves, monitoring, and measurements supported
• TR 101 290 test standard support
• Support SNMP, SNTP, Syslog, Telnet & VLAN
• Ease of configuration with HTML interface

Traffic Generation Features

• Generates up to 2Gb of network traffic: video, voice, or data
• Live IP flow Replication
• Playback of Transport Stream File
• Playback of Protocol Capture with timestamp
• IP and MPEG Transport Impairment Capabilities: Cumulative Jitter, Loss, PID Drop, Packet Drop, PCR Jitter modification, Duplicate IP Packets, and Out of Sequence IP Packets
• Simulate Headend flows and Programs
• TCL Scripting Support
• Used with IQMediaStimulus^® Software or HTML interface