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.

In passive video testing, thousands of IPTV channels or Video On Demand (VoD) streams are analyzed in real-time to determine the quality of individual and collective video streams. With active or full reference testing, a known reference video clip is sent through a network to track for any video degradation and analyze end user QoE and QoS before and after the video segment has passed through the network. It is Shenick's unique ability to test overall performance and QoS, coupled with the ability to drill down to each IPTV, VoIP and Internet user for true QoE that establishes it as a sole provider of truly integrated IPTV and triple play test solutions.

One of the biggest challenges in the IPTV/triple play industry is how to guarantee a high quality service to the end user. Communicatio ns equipment vendors and telecom operators turn to testing in order to identify and solve problems, but not all testing gives an accurate description of what the end user will see. Most services look at the flow of information through the network and fail to look at the quality of experience of the end user, which is where Shenick diversifEye can help.

"IPTV subscribers have high expectations for IPTV services and zero tolerance for quality issues. Communications equipment vendors and telecom operators need to provide a near perfect solution to satisfy end user demand," says Robert Winters, co-founder and chief marketing officer, Shenick Network Systems. "This is not easy. It's only when you test at a network and application level as well as analyze what each individual user experiences that you can truly guarantee high quality IPTV and triple play services. Anything less and you just can't guarantee a quality end user experience."

Shenick's diversifEye is the only truly converged IP test system in the industry to be housed in one chassis. It reduces the cost of testing for equipment vendors and network providers as well as offering the ability to truly correlate results from the full triple play of IPTV, Video on Demand, VoIP and high speed data applications such as web, email and bandwidth hungry P2P applications. In addition, Shenick's diversifEye offers full security attack emulation, testing a network's ability to mitigate against distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that are designed to disrupt customer experience.

Shenick's diversifEye solution is available through www.shenick.com.