Industry-first solutions help meet consumer demand for IPTV, online gaming and other multiplay services

The increasing popularity of voice over IP (VoIP) telephony, high-quality television broadcast over IP (IPTV), online gaming and other data-intensive online entertainment downloads are pushing the convergence of voice, video and data services over a single network infrastructure. Existing networks that deliver such services, however, are not optimized for real-time applications, requiring network elements to be properly configured or upgraded to deliver these multiplay services. To help develop and deploy multiplay infrastructures faster and more reliably, Agilent has introduced new solutions that simplify multiplay test.

Successful multiplay infrastructure testing must be able to:

• Confirm delivery of voice, video and data services to residential customers over a single access point.
• Handle an increasingly complex infrastructure.
• Ensure that subscriber quality of experience expectations can be met.
• Validate services under real-world conditions.
• Precisely locate bottlenecks and troubleshoot configuration issues.

Agilent's new multiplay test solutions address these challenges.

• Agilent N2X Multiservices Test Solution -- This is the industry's first multiplay test solution to combine line-rate, hardware-based performance statistics for video, voice and data services on the same test port. The Agilent N2X provides scalable hardware-based triple play traffic generation and analysis based on user-defined subscriber profiles. Each test port displays video media quality and IPTV channel-zapping metrics along with voice Mean Opinion Score and data forwarding performance measurements. This unique capability allows network equipment manufacturers and service providers to identify how the number and behavior of subscribers and traffic mix impacts overall Quality of Experience, and to validate the triple play readiness of network infrastructure equipment prior to deployment.
• Agilent Triple Play Analyzer -- A complete in-service monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting tool for voice, data and video applications. It is the world's first IPTV analysis and monitoring solution that supports and analyzes Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft(r) Mediaroom command and control protocols. This solution empowers service providers and network equipment manufacturers to accelerate the development and deployment of Mediaroom-based IPTV networks and enables them to ensure the highest Quality of Service (QoS).
• Agilent Network Tester -- This solution is able to generate realistic multiprotocol traffic mixes at high scale, allowing users to subject equipment to conditions of load and stress in order to simulate broadband networks.
• Agilent WireScope Pro -- An all-in-one tool that serves network administrators and solution integrators from cabling installation to service turn-up and troubleshooting. It enables network administrators and network solution integrators to validate and pre-qualify the quality of VoIP services, and to stress test Ethernet connections.

Together, Agilent's new test products offer true end-to-end performance monitoring and testing of fixed, mobile and converged networks, making it simpler to handle complex tasks more easily, rapidly and successfully.

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