Shenick diversifEye - Triple Play / IPTV Testing

diversifEye Triple Play / IPTV Services Testing

How to Test IPTV with Shenick diversifEye

Why test IPTV with diversifEye?

An effective method of testing IPTV and Triple Play is to build, test & measure on a ‘Per Client / Per flow’ basis with several unique individual voice, video & application data clients behind each residential gateway. 

Some key steps in testing IPTV with diversifEye are outlined here:

As per the real world, diversifEye provides emulation and test with unique MAC & IP addresses per client (critical to validate security in many environments).  In some networks part of the overall security will include authentication such as establishing DHCP sessions on a per client basis with external DCHP servers. 

An effective test in diversifEye for IPTV over triple play environments includes emulating multiple individual clients inside multiple individual VLANs (with priority bits enabled), in addition d

iversifEye has the ability of double VLAN tagging.

diversifEye emulates client and server side. Users may test individual voice, video & application data clients against diversifEye voice, video & application data servers. But more importantly users may run the individual voice, video & application data clients against actual deployed servers through the network. This demonstrates real world performance & QoS as the clients are interacting with the real thing.

diversifEye enables scale testing, as a further step in understanding individual client QoE emulate surges in usage by adding individual clients into the environment in real time, without stopping the test. Ultimately measure the effect of one client on another client on the same Residential Gateway / across multiple Residential Gateways. 

Some specific reasoning behind the need to test such tests include :

• What happens when two IPTV STB are on the same channel and one IPTV STB changes channel? Is there any effect on the IPTV STB that does not change channel?-
• What happens when you have both IGMP V2 and IGMP V3 STB in the same household? What is the performance difference between these IPTV STB?

diversifEye measures IPTV STB’s; leave, join latency, zap rate & other performance metrics on a per client basis for each set top box (STB), plus scales to realistic home scenarios of multiple IPTV STB per residential gateway / household.

Use diversifEye to determine the maximum channel zap loads in relation to the IPTV STB and IP network, this test scenario includes emulating IPTV STBs leaving the IPTV chann

el immediately after the join.

After establishing the effective IPTV performance QoE results on a per flow basis, use diversifEye to create client variability to match real world use of voice, video & application data services. 

Further advance IPTV performance by mitigating against security attacks, use diversifEye to run both regular (HTTP, IGMP, POP3, SMTP etc) application flows and disruptive flows (P2P, DDOS, spam, viruses). Include real documents for email, URLs, attachments for realistic, per client web traffic flows, spam, viruses etc. 

To future proof the network and technology advance testing by mixing IPv4 and IPv6 application flows.

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