Telchemy (News - Alert) has announced the availability of SQlive, an IPTV and IP Videoconferencing performance monitoring application. This application can measure the performance of scrambled/ encrypted IP Video streams, producing Video MOS scores and a wide range of diagnostic metrics.

 

Telchemy provides Voice and Video over IP Performance Management Technology with its VQmon, DVQattest and SQmon families of service quality monitoring and analysis software products. The company’s Voice and Video IP performance management technology considers the effects of time-varying network impairments. Telchemy has led the development of VoIP performance management protocols within the industry.

 

SQlive is based on Telchemy's VQmon/HD IP video assessment technology, which analyzes scrambled and unscrambled IPTV streams carried over MPEG Transport or RTP, and IP Videoconferencing/ HD Telepresence (News - Alert) streams carried over RTP or SRTP.

 

According to the company, SQlive is compact enough to be easily integrated into IP set- top boxes, but powerful enough to monitor large numbers of high-definition IPTV streams.

 

SQlive is a compact "drop-in" application that can be easily incorporated into an IP set-top box with virtually no software integration required. This powerful application can also analyze large numbers of IPTV streams in real time for IPTV probe or head-end applications.

 

"We are pleased to introduce SQlive, the latest in our real-time video analysis product range," said Alan Clark (News - Alert), Telchemy's CEO and president. "SQlive is ideal for both IPTV and digital cable system performance management, and provides a strong solution for IP Videoconferencing and HD Telepresence."

 

Company officials say that SQlive will provide a wide range of QoE metrics as it has the ability to identify video frames and recognizes the type of video content.

 

The claimed metrics include Video MOS scores that incorporate the effect of packet impairments on different video frame types, GoP error propagation, video bandwidth, video codec, bandwidth limitation and other factors; Video content descriptors, including data on levels of detail and motion; Video content alerts, which detect if content is blank or frozen; I/B (News - Alert)/P frame statistics, including loss rates within each type of frame, bandwidth usage; and other key data and video degradation factors, which highlight the key sources of performance degradation.

 

Telchemy's embedded performance analysis technology and turnkey software applications provide IPTV and Triple/Quad Play service providers with a comprehensive solution for performance monitoring, testing, and troubleshooting of subscribers.