Introduction to IPTV/MPEG testing

Paragon Active Assurance Test Agents are equipped with IPTV receivers that perform multichannel measurements at multiple locations inside your network. This makes it possible to visualize your IPTV quality from the head-end all the way to your customers. In this way, you can pinpoint where problems occur and take appropriate actions.

An IPTV receiver is an instance that receives IPTV multicast groups/channels (one or several). For example, if you are monitoring three channels on one interface and three channels on another interface (physical or logical), this means you are using two receivers.

Read more about the IPTV tests supported in Paragon Active Assurance on the following pages:

• IPTV MPEG

• IPTV MPEG inline

• IPTV channel zapping time

• IGMP channel join/leave

• Multicast group limit