Mividi IP Monitoring System (TSM100) is an ideal choice for monitoring IPTV services. In general, IPTV service providers acquire video content from multiple sources, including satellite, fiber optical cable, terrestrial broadcast, as well as locally generated videos. The source streams may be decoded and re-encoded to satisfy their bandwidth allocation needs and meet the specification of customers’ receiving devices. Therefore, it is common that hundreds of programs and many different transport streams are being processed in service providers’ head-ends. Additional complexity may be added in order to process advertisement insertion and provide EPG information.

The case provides an example of using Mividi IP Monitoring System (TSM100) to monitor the quality of digital TV signal transmission using satellite. The satellite station will encode 64 digital TV services, and the encoded video transport streams are modulated into L-band signal for satellite transmission. The transmitted signal is received by multiple IRDs in order to verify transmission quality.

The IMS120 can simultaneously analyze multiple streams received from one or more IP input interfaces. The system can support high bandwidth test and therefore reduce the cost of testing each transport stream. It supports remote operation and is very scalable. Since the software runs on standard Windows 7 based PCs, it is easy to maintain and upgrade in the future.