Brix Networks and HwaCom Systems of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, announced the integration of Brix Networks' IPTV Quality Agent into HwaCom's HC-100 set-top box that gives service providers the ability to collect video performance information, metrics, and provides at-home visibility into providers' IPTV services.

HwaCom's STB with the Brix IPTV Quality Agent lets service providers monitor IP video and network quality -- including highlighting the performance of the IPTV and multicast infrastructure, performing continual or on-demand diagnostics of the STB, and quantifying the user channel change experience -- for operational, troubleshooting, and customer care applications.

Brix Networks is exhibiting at this week's IPTV World Forum 2007 show, being held March 5-7, at the Olympia in London, in booth 123.

Brix is also now part of HwaCom's IPTV ecosystem, which includes system elements from headend, middleware, video servers, network equipment, and set-top boxes with software applications. Additionally, the companies plan to develop other comprehensive IP video quality testing solutions for HwaCom's STBs in the future.