Intelligent Video Management System for Quality and Service Assurance
iVMS® 5 holds the key to efficiently pinpoint and solve issues in your video network. It is a scalable system that provides the essentials for true end-to-end video management and the first solution to incorporate Program Availability reporting, a methodology standard recently approved by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE).
Designed to simplify everyday tasks and streamline operations, the iVMS 5 provides data intelligence that reduces the mean time to diagnose, helps control operational expenses, tracks the performance of a network and operations team, as well as manage compliance of business agreements.
The base system provides real-time monitoring and performance analysis, while additional modules allow you to customize the system to address your individual requirements. Together, they provide a unified solution that simplifies the complexities of all the aggregated data collected on a per program basis. So, no matter where you're located and what level of detail you require, you can simply log onto iVMS 5 to access the intelligence needed to manage your network.
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-time monitoring allows a user to track the health of all video on a per program basis throughout the entire network. This level of visibility provides pro-active management of the quality of your video services by the automation of detecting video impacting events, rapidly isolating faults, and sending alerts from source to screen. With geographic and logical views of network topology in a real-time updating display, iVMS 5 quickly indicates the source and magnitude of a problem allowing for accurate dispatching of resources to the exact point of the issue. And, the ability to drill-down into the details of the data with just a right-click of a mouse makes troubleshooting an issue just as simple.
The Real-Time Views within iVMS provide measurements and statistics directly from remote monitoring points to allow engineers and technicians to troubleshoot the root cause of any issue.
Performance Analysis
Access to aggregated historical data enables operators and managers to track the performance of the video network and operation team. Analysis of performance data from multiple points across the network over multiple days can help narrow the root cause of a problem and determine the customer impact. iVMS 5 stores performance and alarm data giving a user a top down approach to analysis. Automated scheduled reports keep operators and management up-to-date on network performance.
Northbound Services
iVMS integrates smoothly to your NMS or OSS with the help of SNMP to communicate video monitoring messages, detailed video event messages, and system/probe health messages. E-mail notifications and alerts reinforce the real-time display of faults on the network.
Security
Account management and audit logs control and manage different levels of access to the iVMS system. The system can direct users to exactly the tools they need based on the user privileges assigned.
Configuration Management
With iVMS 5, you can:
- Centrally manage the configuration files of all probe points throughout the network
- Easily manage alarm thresholds for Alarming on real customer impacting events
- Oversee and control inventory of probes in the network from a single central point
Applications
- Quality & Service Assurance for video distribution and delivery
- Real-time monitoring of subsystems for OPEX control and SLA compliance
- Performance analysis to benchmark the delivery network and operation team
Key Features
- End-to-End visibility into the entire video delivery network
- Correlation of aggregated QoS & QoE data on a per program basis
- Program Availability reporting, the key performance indicator for video*
- Customized alarm management
- Simplified navigation and user-interface includes comprehensive views, tools and menu structure
- Northbound services & emailing
- Centralized probe configuration
iVMS Mobile
Video Quality Monitoring and Diagnostics for iPhone and iPod Touch
iVMS Mobile® is the industry's first Video Quality Monitoring and Diagnostics application for Apple's® iPhone® and the Apple iPod® touch. For the first time, service provider executives, operations teams, OSS operators and field technicians can view in real-time and from any geographic location, a broad spectrum of video quality and performance metrics including video quality status and program availability. With a simple screen tap, video personnel can also view important program quality alarms, along with necessary problem resolution details, turning their iPhone into a mobile video network operations center (NOC).
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