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IPTV Service Assurance Software—BrixVision

Enables providers to successfully introduce video services faster and manage them more cost-effectively, by continually assuring the highest service quality.

Applications
Video service assurance

Key Features and Benefits

  • Enables service providers to compete on quality to gain market share and reduce churn
  • Assures customer satisfaction and meets quality-of-experience expectations
  • Proactively manages and monitors the quality of subscribers’ viewing experiences
  • Continually monitors live video programming to ensure end-to-end content quality
  • Delivers complete end-to-end service-assurance visibility

BrixVision: End-to-End Quality of Experience Assessment for IP Video

As service providers move rapidly to gain market share in the highly competitive IP video space, it is becoming essential for them to meet customers' quality of experience (QoE). As the need for better and better quality is on the rise, providers must be prepared to meet this increasing demand. While they are rapidly developing their IP video infrastructures, they should also ensure that their deployment processes are optimized.

The IP video market is exploding and the dominant providers will be the ones that successfully turn up, test, troubleshoot and continually monitor and assure their IP video services. To do so, they must be equipped with proper measurement and monitoring tools to test their networks at the deployment phase, otherwise significant time and money could be wasted. Moreover, when turning up their networks, providers must ensure that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met before rollout. Finally, they also need to continuously monitor their IP video network performance to ensure QoE and keep their customers happy.

Such end-to-end service assurance requires a sophisticated solution that combines both hardware and software components that are integrated, scalable, flexible and easy to use. The answer: EXFO’s BrixVison IP Video Service Assurance.

This IP video solution includes a wide range of testing equipment—from low-cost home verifiers to handheld network testers and to rackmounted core network verifiers capable of active and passive testing. Combined with EXFO’s award-winning BrixVision software, this solution provides sophisticated, real-time diagnostics on a wide variety of KPIs in order to meet customers’ QoE and guarantee service-level agreements (SLAs).
BrixVision Advantages


End-To-End Service Assurance
Supports the assessment of key metrics, from the head-end to the home

Cost Reduction
Reduces CAPEX at the deployment and turn-up phases, minimizes OPEX for ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting, and drastically cuts the number of truck rolls necessary at all stages

Application Agnostic
Supports telco, cable MSO, terrestrial, satellite and over-the-top (OTT) IP video solutions

Real-Time Service Assurance
Provides 7/24/365 live monitoring, passive and active testing (even to the customer’s home) for fast and easy troubleshooting

Sophisticated Reporting
Offers powerful reporting tools that include real-time and historical information in a detailed and searchable format, all within a simple, web-based graphical user interface


Integrated Components
Provides a wide range of powerful testers and verifiers for every part of the network (e.g., head-end, core, regional office, field locations and residential endpoints), which seamlessly communicate with the BrixVision reporting engine


Triple-Play Solution
Supports fully integrated VoIP and NGN data networks, all within the same monitoring system; offers global service support via best-in-class integrated service assurance solutions for voice, video and data networks

To learn more about how EXFO’s End-To-End IP Video solutions can cut costs and improve your network, please contact EXFO Service Assurance at 1 888-BRIXNET or download additional information for the Documents tab.