Pixelmetrix introduced VISUALmpegPRO, integrating its VISUALmpeg Elementary Stream and Video Quality analyzers, to boost consistency in data verification.

The VISUALmpegPRO allows for visual inspection of all aspects of MPEG video coding right from bit rate to macroblock motion vector analysis.

Mariner Partners, Inc. announced the availability of xVu TV Care, the industry's first proactive monitoring solution for IPTV Service Assurance solution.

Mariner xVu continuously monitors the customer's actual IPTV viewing experience and provides service providers with unparalleled visibility into the quality and reliability of the service delivered to each TV in the home.

Pixelmetrix will exhibit its latest array of IPTV service validation tools at TelcoTV 2006. Highlights include the DVStorIP-Gen for IPTV Stress Testing and DVStation-IP for IPTV Quality of Service monitoring.

TelcoTV starts today and will run for three days in Dallas, Texas.

Pixelmetrix has announced the integration of the H.264 Advanced Video Coding capability in its new DVStation-IP, to decode MPEG-4 Part 10 video elementary streams. These are presented as thumbnails within Service View, one of the key features of the DVStation-IP.

The DVStation-IP Service View consolidates all information and performance parameters of IPTV Services into an easy-to-navigate central screen. This enables operators to quickly identify problems, thus minimizing service disruption.

IneoQuest Technologies (IQ) announced its IP Video Quality Management System (iVMS), the first end-to-end IPTV video quality and service assurance solution. iVMS delivers a complete view into the "health" of an IPTV network never before possible with other systems. Additionally, iVMS provides rapid, practical, isolation and remote troubleshooting, enabling network operators to maintain the highest possible video quality, while helping to reduce operating expenses.

Deutsche Telekom AG has signed on with Shenick Network System's diversifEye to test network performance and the quality for its T-Com triple-play IPTV, VoIP and high speed Internet applications for broadband end user services.

Spirent Communications announced that Tiscali Netherlands has selected Spirent TestCenter to ensure interoperability of its multi-vendor equipment in its core and access networks. Spirent TestCenter will enable Tiscali Netherlands to test current and future equipment as it upgrades its network to meet future customer demand and to cater for bandwidth-hungry services such as IPTV.

Developing perception-based quality assessment test and measurement tools, Optimum Holding Inc. (Optimum), unveiled its Q-Master Video quality analyzer. The Q-Master solution is designed for telecommunications development engineers within System OEMs and Service Providers that need a flexible and cost-effective solution to test, measure and analyze the video quality generated and received by their multimedia products. A tool for laboratory environments, the Q-Master system uses ITU standard perceptual analysis to generate a Mean Opinion Score (MOS) that represents the end-user’s perception of quality from the device under test. These devices include codecs, echo-cancellers, transcoders, gateways, set top boxes and other types of video networking equipment.

JDSU announced it has been selected by Shanghai China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom), the incumbent telecommunications carrier for China, to ensure the installation, maintenance and monitoring of its IPTV services. China Telecom purchased multiple units of JDSU's HST-3000 IP Video test suite with ADSL2+ options and the JDSU QT-200 xDSL and Triple-Play Probe. Both products will be on display at IPTV World Forum Asia 06 in Shanghai, September 27-29 (booths 42-43).

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.

Shenick Network Systems announced video quality testing enhancements to its diversifEyeT IPTV and triple play test solutions. Shenick's diversifEye offers a full range of IP video quality testing on a passive (real-time), as well as an active (full reference) basis to determine quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) right down to the individual viewer level. Shenick diversifEye is the first and only integrated test system that enables network service providers and equipment vendors to test the full range of triple play, IPTV, VoIP and high speed Internet services.

Tektronix, Inc., a worldwide provider of communications network management and diagnostics solutions, announced the availability of Spectra2|VQM (Video Quality Measurement) version 2.0 for the diagnosis and analysis of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV). Leveraging Tektronix' 60 year heritage in innovation and building on its industry leadership in video and IP network test, measurement and monitoring, Spectra2|VQM v2.0 is the next generation network test tool, providing the industry's most comprehensive real time video Control Plane and video media quality testing solution for network operators and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs). The solution provides a complete platform for Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics.

Juniper Networks, Inc. announced the expansion of the RESIP (Resilient IP) laboratory in Munich to include testing, certification and demonstration facilities to ease the deployment of IPTV and multiplay service offerings. Previously focused on next-generation network Voice over IP (VoIP) applications, the RESIP laboratory now accommodates full-meshed core and edge routing, access and aggregation solutions, IPTV and multiplay applications, and the underlying infrastructure, at scale. The RESIP laboratory is working closely with the IPTV and Multiplay Center of Excellence Laboratory in Westford, Massachusetts, which is also a resource designed to help assure readiness for providers' production service deployments.

RADCOM, Ltd., a leading network test and service monitoring solutions provider, today announced it will unveil Omni-Q’s uniquely powerful IPTV monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities at Fall 2006 VON in Boston, Massachusetts on September 12, 2006. Omni-Q for IPTV monitors an entire IPTV network, end to end. This exclusive capability is made possible by the company’s award-winning R70 pure hardware probe which can deliver upper layer application analysis in real time. Implementing the power of the R70 for IPTV analysis enables operators to easily scale up to hundreds of GbE links. The system solution gives IPTV service providers a comprehensive, correlated view of IPTV service delivery, complete with service quality metrics, over a large IPTV network.

Spirent Communications, a worldwide provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems for next-generation network technologies, announced that it has partnered with Anue Systems, a provider of network emulation solutions for Ethernet, SONET/SDH, and Fibre Channel environments. The partnership expands Spirent's capabilities to assist network equipment manufacturers and service providers with Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) issues across converged networks.