Headend Confidence Monitoring
IneoQuest’s new VeriFrame™ Technology enabled products, Cricket FrameGrabber™ and iCMS™, provide the industry’s most cost-effective and comprehensive content validation solution which automatically evaluates the content quality at the NOC/headend. With this advanced solution, operators are able to verify the incoming content feeds they are receiving and the outgoing content feeds the headend is producing. IneoQuest’s headend confidence monitoring solution can be scheduled to monitor hundreds of channels which will automatically test content integrity 24/7 and generate alerts (via email and SNMP) for channels that do not meet specified limits.
Cable and IPTV operators simply connect a feed’s composite video and audio output into the Cricket FrameGrabber hardware probe which has the capability to:
- Tune to any channel;
- Scan all the channels and monitor the video and audio for any loss, and;
- Auto detect Black Screen, Freeze Frame, and other impairments, and immediately alert the operator through email or SNMP via the iCMS content monitoring system.
The Cricket FrameGrabber captures multiple thumbnails every second and uploads them to the iCMS. The iCMS provides a mosaic view, along with other views, of all video thumbnails from the Cricket FrameGrabbers in the network. This provides a cost-effective centralized monitoring solution of the headend video input and output points. Via a simple web browser the operator can visually inspect the mosaic thumbnail view to validate the content at the headend location. The iCMS stores all the thumbnails in a database for reporting and trending applications.
Key Features
- Provides a Mosaic thumbnail view of multiple sources for immediate visual verification
- Includes long term data storage and video thumbnail archiving for reporting and trending
- Automatically detects Video and Audio signal loss, Black Screen, Freeze Frame, and alerts the operator via SNMP or email
- Automatically monitors the entire channel lineup
- Provides for the identification, evaluation, and failure analysis of video source errors
- Generates alerts when faults are detected and confirmed
- Logs and allows review of faults via the iCMS or web interface