Brix Networks and
Texas Instruments Incorporated
(TI) announced a collaboration and development initiative
designed to deliver pervasive IP endpoint service assurance management. The
companies' collaboration will give service providers the ability to collect
valuable performance information on an unprecedented scale, and provide
crucial, last-mile visibility into the quality of experience of providers'
revenue-generating offerings, including Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP), IP television (IPTV), and advanced data services.
"TI has shipped more than 350 million ports across IP phones,
residential modems and gateways, set top boxes, and carrier-class
equipment," said Debbie Greenstreet, director of service provider strategy,
Texas Instruments. "Working together with Brix Networks, our PIQUA
system automates the process of gathering IP performance metrics and
converts this data into actionable information. This integration empowers
providers, enterprises, and equipment manufacturers to dramatically improve
their subscribers' and users' quality of experience and reduce overall
network operating costs."
TI technology provides functional elements that form the foundation of
the company's PIQUA real-time, IP quality management system. Based on TI's
digital signal processor (DSP) technology and embedded software solutions,
TI's PIQUA system utilizes sophisticated, real-time calculations to
instantly assess quality parameters related to the user's experience,
allowing both equipment manufacturers and service providers to
automatically and dynamically adapt to changing conditions and make
adjustments which today are either impossible or done manually.
In addition to a comprehensive set of active tests and live service
monitoring, Brix Networks' BrixWorx central-site correlation and
reporting engine collects key performance indicator (KPI) information --
such as availability, bandwidth, packet loss, latency, jitter and call
quality, -- using various standards-based communication protocols,
including RTCP-XR, and TR-069, via the new BrixWorx Connector for TI's
PIQUA software. This information can be gathered from a wide range of
endpoint devices, including residential gateways, IP set top boxes, IP
phones, digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable gateways, and others."
Our customers are increasingly requesting a unified source of quality
and IP performance management with visibility to their various endpoints,"
noted Robert Travis, director of solutions marketing at Brix Networks. "The
Brix collaboration with TI offers a mechanism for customer satisfaction,
service performance visibility, faster problem resolution, and overall
operational efficiency improvement."
Today's announcement was made in conjunction with the Fall 2006 VON
Conference & Expo being held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center,
September 11-14, where Brix is exhibiting in booth 1049 and Texas
Instruments is hosting a hospitality suite in room 158. A demonstration of
the joint solution, highlighting BrixWorx and TI's PIQUA system, providing
voice QoS monitoring and reporting, will be available at both companies'
respective locations at this event.