Microsoft Adds Agilent and IneoQuest Quality of Service Assurance Solutions to Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Ecosystem
Posted on June 16, 2008
Filed Under Microsoft
LAS VEGAS, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. today
announced that Agilent Technologies Inc. and IneoQuest Technologies Inc.
have joined the Microsoft Mediaroom ecosystem as Internet Protocol
television (IPTV) quality of service (QoS) solution providers. The Agilent
and IneoQuest solutions help service providers ensure the highest QoS for
their deployments of the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and
multimedia software platform without compromising security or network
performance.
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With the help of Agilent and IneoQuest, consumer interest and adoption
of Microsoft Mediaroom services will continue to accelerate. The platform,
which reached 1 million subscriber homes in the first quarter of 2008, is
now powering connected TV services on more than 2 million TV sets
worldwide. Microsoft Mediaroom took 18 months to reach its first million
TVs, and only five months to reach its second million, a rate of more than
three times faster.
A key component of the Microsoft Mediaroom ecosystem, service assurance
solutions enable up-to-the-minute monitoring and analyzing of Microsoft
Mediaroom-powered services. With the Agilent and IneoQuest solutions,
service providers have a more effective way to quickly detect and resolve
QoS issues, which can ultimately help reduce operating costs. Specific
measurement and performance indicators Agilent and IneoQuest’s solutions
will provide the following:
— Effective packet loss, taking into account Microsoft Mediaroom’s
unique error-correction methods that enable high resilience to network
performance degradation
— Analysis of audiovisual bit rates
— Ongoing assessment of instant channel-changing effectiveness
— Continual observation of round-trip latency between Microsoft
Mediaroom servers and clients
“As world-class leaders in QoS solutions, Agilent and IneoQuest bring
exceptional service assurance solutions to the Microsoft Mediaroom
ecosystem,” said Joe Seidel, director of global partner ecosystems for
Microsoft Mediaroom. “Through these collaborations, Mediaroom service
providers will be able to more easily prevent, identify and troubleshoot
issues and help ensure the seamless delivery of next-generation TV
offerings.”
Agilent’s service assurance solution for Microsoft Mediaroom is its
J6900A Triple Play Analyzer. This solution is a complete test solution for
network equipment manufacturers and communication service providers that
develop, install, maintain, troubleshoot and monitor IP-based voice, video
and data systems. It is an ideal tool for detecting and resolving
signaling, transport, platform and general quality of experience problems
before customers can be affected. It also provides the essential
measurements and key performance indicators that enable engineers and
technicians to quickly and proactively identify customer issues before they
become problems, resulting in faster and higher-quality IPTV network
deployments.
IneoQuest’s IQPinPoint(TM) is a video quality and service assurance
solution, integrating the award-winning IneoQuest iVMS(TM) video management
system with the multi-interface Cricket(TM) family, the 1 GigE and 10 GigE
Singulus(TM) family, and 1 GigE and 10 GigE Geminus(TM) family of
intelligent hardware probes. iVMS, with strategically placed hardware
probes throughout the network, provides true end-to-end quality monitoring
from video source to subscriber. Its patented multidimensional quality
assurance technology ensures the highest possible quality of video
experience for Microsoft Mediaroom customers. The intelligent IQPinPoint
solution provides revenue assurance through essential real-time monitoring,
analysis, troubleshooting and auditing of thousands of simultaneous video
flows for critical network parameters including IP packet loss, video bit
rates, channel change parameters and round-trip server latency.
About Microsoft Mediaroom
The award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television
(IPTV) and multimedia software platform is driving the future of television
by enabling broadband service providers to deliver new connected TV and
entertainment experiences to consumers worldwide. Microsoft Mediaroom
provides new ways for consumers to experience TV as part of their
connected, digital lifestyle while also creating new business opportunities
for broadband service providers, hardware manufacturers, content creators,
advertisers and application developers. Over 20 of the world’s leading
service providers across four continents have selected the Microsoft
Mediaroom platform to drive their digital TV services. More information on
Microsoft Mediaroom and the opportunity to deliver the best in TV plus all
your media in one place is available at http://www.microsoft.com/tv and
http://www.microsoftmediaroom.com.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
SOURCE Microsoft Corp.
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