Mariner announces they are teaming with Border States Electric to jointly market xVu, Mariner’s award winning service quality monitoring solution. The strategic partnership will expand xVu’s market penetration throughout the United States and provide BSE with an industry leading monitoring solution product.

TR-069 provides a standard for remote management of end-user devices. By leveraging this technical standard, xVu is able to proactively monitor the performance of IPTV set top boxes incorporating TR-069.

Key Facts

• Mariner’s xVu is an award-winning IPTV service assurance platform that is currently deployed with service providers across Europe, Canada, U.S., the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific markets.
• xVu is integrated with Advanced Digital Broadcast’s (ADB) latest IPTV set-top boxes. The solution provides quantifiable metrics on the quality of the video, audio and performance of each set-top box in each home. The operator has visibility into problems of long channel change times, errors within the video such as frame drop, and can proactively resolve these issues, often before the subscriber is aware of them.
• BSE’s data communications and networking supplies play a key role in the successful deployment of IPTV Networks across the United States.
• Visit Mariner at Booth #59 at the 49th Annual Tri-State Telecom Operations Conference (TOC) & Showcase, May 10-12 2011, Fargo, ND.