Shenick Network Systems, an award winning provider of high performance IP communications test systems, today announced that it has added significant IPTV and triple play enhancements to the release of its diversifEye Version 3.0 software.

With diversifEye 3.0, Shenick is the only IP communications test vendor to provide the degree of granularity required to test overall performance and quality of service (QoS), coupled with the ability to drill down to each IPTV, VoIP and internet user for true quality of experience (QoE) assessment. All functionality is packaged into a single box test system.

"Shenick is one of the first companies to anticipate and address the many new real-world deployment issues that the emergence of triple play brought to IP communications," said Sankara Jambulingam, research analyst, Frost & Sullivan's. "We are delighted to award Shenick the Frost & Sullivan Communications Test & Measurement Emerging Company of the Year for 2006."

With the new features of enhanced IPTV test, video quality analysis, the addition of VoIP, DHCP and PPPoE protocols, Shenick customers can now test critical IPTV, triple play, broadband services performance and quality issues within a single system. Shenick's diversifEye handles the complete cycle of broadband customer access scenarios from obtaining an IP address via DHCP to establishing PPP tunnels through emulation of real user application traffic flows of multiple IPTV, VoIP, VoD and data applications such as Web, P2P and email. Shenick will also support real-time (or passive) IPTV video quality analysis on a per IPTV channel basis coupled with active video analysis against a known reference video stream. This enables IPTV service providers to assess video quality on an aggregate or per viewer basis by employing industry standard perceptual quality scoring based on the ITU J.144 standard with IP based video extensions such as V-Factor and PEVQ (perceptual evaluation of video quality).

The addition of real VoIP call generation supporting the dominant SIP standard protocol means that customers can now more realistically assess how each application will behave under live operational conditions in a truly converged triple play environment. In addition to IPTV/Triple Play application test capability, diversifEye's security attack module provides the added realism of DDoS (Denial of Service), Virus, Worm and Spam attacks and the emerging wave of VoIP (SIP) and IPTV (IGMP) attacks.

"Anyone responsible for deploying high quality IPTV and triple play services of voice, data and video needs to be concerned with overall converged IP network performance and the individual customer quality of experience," said Robert Winters, chief marketing officer, Shenick Network Systems. "Today network resources are being stretched to cope with shared standard and high definition IPTV, video on demand services along with a mix of high speed internet data application and of course, VoIP. Companies rolling out new IP services need to understand their limitations and Shenick's diversifEye provides all the necessary tools to increase confidence levels."

Availability -- diversifEye V3.0 is available immediately.