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OverviewApplications & FeaturesiCMS Supported Probes

iCMS from IneoQuest Technologies is a new Video Content Monitoring System that provides a never before, real-time, look into the QoE health of the video distribution network by managing multiple Cricket FrameGrabber probes. From video source to customer premise, this content monitoring system detects customer experience impacting events, sends alerts, and rapidly isolates faults while providing the correct tools for remote troubleshooting.

The Real-Time Monitoring of the iCMS allows a user to visually verify and audit video content as well as monitor and track QoE of all video programs throughout the entire network. The iCMS provides
a unique mosaic view for immediate visual verification of all video programs. It is like having a virtual NOC on your desktop; view your video from anywhere, anytime. Each real-time view provides alarming notifications for proactive problem solving.

In Ad insertion, iCMS and Cricket FrameGrabber used with another IneoQuest probe provides Ad auditing, splice performance validation, and Ad health monitoring.

Applications

  • Distributed Content Validation
  • Headend Confidence Monitoring
  • Ad Insertion Validation
  • Content Test & Measurement

Key Features

  • Baseband video & audio fault monitoring, performance, and auditing
  • Mosaic thumbnail view for immediate visual verification
  • Long term data storage & video thumbnail archiving
  • Retrieval and navigation of archived thumbnail information and video & audio statistics
  • Channel scheduling across multiple probes for specific channels at specific times
  • Distributed management of multiple Cricket FrameGrabbers
  • Report generation and data extraction
  • Integrated with iVMS™ Video Management System

Cricket™ FrameGrabber

  • Composite Video Content QoE Monitoring, Auditing and Troubleshooting Tool
  • Real-Time Monitoring & Alarming on every video frame
  • Black Screen Detection, Audio channel levels,Intensity Levels, and Freeze Frame
  • Thumbnail Capture: hardware probe captures video frames in jpg thumbnails (up to 8 thumbnails/sec)