IQDialogue™ SDV Server Edition

IQDialogue™ SDV Server is a software-based monitoring probe that analyzes, monitors, and troubleshoots Switched Digital Video (SDV) networks. IQDialogue identifies the various SDV protocols in a comprehensive and familiar web-based format, which in turn provides information on the SDV service delivery platform. IQDialogue allows users to measure and alarm on channel change timing, control plane signaling, Mini-Carousel, and many other parameters (IGMP, ICMP, etc.) assuring quick and accurate fault identification. All transactions (requests and responses) are logged individually to an SQL database for reporting and auditing purposes.

SDV Signaling Overview IQDialogue provides visual representation of all aspects of the Switched Digital Video signaling. Classification is done in real-time on type and status, with easy to understand color coding. The user can switch back and forth between the various status screens, and operational mode (analysis, stim) with just the click of a button. SDV message filtering can be performed on a per Service-Group level for more targeted analysis. Capacity and processing abilities are only limited by the host platform and IP interfaces available. SNMP forwarder

Northbound Alarming Services Support for multiple trap destinations Integration to the IneoQuest iVMS™ video management platform Full Libpcap capture of monitored traffic User configurable thresholds and alarms

Recording and Playback In addition to real-time monitoring, IQDialogue allows the user to playback and analyze any compliant Libpcap capture file. IQDialogue can also create and provide a Libpcap capture file for archiving and offline analysis. File capture

Applications

• Analysis, monitoring, auditing, and alarming probe for Switched Digital Video networks
• Measure channel change time, RTSP and RPC communications, mini-carousel, and many other parameters
• Quick and accurate fault identification and isolation

Key Features

• Targeted Real-Time Monitoring, analysis, auditing, and alarming for Switched Digital Video deployments
• Simultaneous support of all major SDV signaling specifications and most vendor implementations
• Multi-OS support: Windows, Solaris(x86) and Linux
• Database back-end for logging and trending of all SDV traffic (STB, SDV server, ERM, EQAM, etc.)
• Northbound alarming services (SNMP traps)
• Support for hundreds of thousands of STBs and to millions of concurrent tuners from a single probe

Measurement & Analysis

• Timing and auditing of Channel Change Protocol (CCP)
• Timing and auditing of STB Client SDV boot-up & registration
• Timing and auditing of RTSP based messaging
• Timing and auditing of SDV Client Auto-Discovery Protocols
• Timing and auditing of SDV Client KeepAlive Protocols
• Monitoring of MPEG2-TS Data flows
• Monitoring and full parsing of SDV Mini-Carousel, for both configuration messages and channel/frequency assignments
• Auto-detection of signaling and vendor protocols
• Analysis and timing of IGMP and DHCP transactions
• XML log reporting of all monitored transactions and faults
• Fast fault isolation via simple color-coded status of bulk messages
• Real-time event filtering on a Service Group basis for fast ID
• Analysis of SDV informational