As Broadcasters move from legacy dedicated transport systems like SDI to delivering media over multi-purpose IP networks, they face new challenges. This is also true for the fast-growing and highly competitive OTT streaming service market. IP-based networks can be unpredictable, introducing variable latency, packet loss, and other bandwidth congestion effects to which real-time video and voice applications are very sensitive and media quality is negatively impacted.
To reduce risk, it is imperative that these new IP-based broadcast technologies like ATSC 3.0 (NextGenTV), as well as encoding and transmission standards such as SMPTE 2110, SMPTE 2022, NDI, SRT, RIST, DASH, etc., are tested under real-world network conditions before going live. This ensures Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for end customers.
Aukua’s cutting-edge testing solution for Broadcast and Media Streaming enables companies to rigorously and empirically evaluate QoE in the face of real-world IP network conditions, allowing them to quickly identify and address issues before they impact viewers.
Aukua offers a unique 3-in-1 Ethernet Packet Capture and Protocol Analyzer, Network Impairment Emulator and Traffic Generator to help test and troubleshoot Ethernet/IP based broadcast and media streaming service solutions.
Emulate adverse network conditions in the lab to verify resiliency of the ST 2110 audio, video, control & timing streams. Stress and prove the ST 2022-7 seamless protection switching mechanism by introducing corruption, loss, latency, packet jitter, reorder and link failure scenarios.
Verify application performance and stability by recreating various real-world networking environments. Verify media streaming services can adapt to changing network conditions. Optimize and ensure end-user QoE even through various unmanaged or poorly managed Wifi, 5G, satellite and broadband networks.
Test and ensure a more robust Broadcast Gateway and Exciter performance against real-world delay, jitter, packet loss, and other IP network impairment conditions. Flush out tolerances, verify transport media boundaries, and video quality before you go live with new enhanced broadcast services.
Repeatable and programmable "real-world" testing in the lab insert delay, limit bandwidth, or introduce network impairment conditions for negative functional testing, to efficiently reproduce customer found problems, or for realistic performance testing. Ethernet and Fibre Channel supported.
Transparently sit inline between systems under test to capture packets with nanosecond precision timestamps. Monitor traffic in real-time, and gain visibility to quickly troubleshoot hard to find problems. Perform event timing correlation and analysis.
Verify throughput performance, accurately measure one-way or two-way latency, or conduct real-time Bit Error Rate (BER) testing to prove system integrity. The traffic generator also has unique support for proprietary protocols, and a powerful PCAP Player.
