Shenick Lets Internet TV Providers See What Individual Viewers See

Shenick Lets Internet TV Providers See What Individual Viewers See

An Industry First

DUBLIN and Supercomm, CHICAGO, June 8/PRNewswire/ -- "You can think of us as 10,000 TV viewers crammed into a little black
box," says Shenick Network Systems' co-founder Robert Winters. "Those 10,000
viewers have always been there, and we've now enhanced diversifEye so that it
can also function as a single viewer's pair of eyes."

Shenick's diversifEye is a testing tool that ensures that the many
systems that drive the Internet do what they're supposed to do. Constant
quality testing of this infrastructure has always been important, and it is
even more crucial now, with the emergence of so-called triple play services:
the increasing convergence of voice, video and high-speed Internet -- and the
growing risk of security attacks, which comes with it.

Essentially, diversifEye emulates regular Internet user and Internet TV
(IPTV) viewer traffic and also launches Internet-based attacks, to test a
system's response to them. By emulating thousands of users, or a single one
of them, it can show a system's manager precisely how well it is working. In
industry shorthand, diverfEye's basic function is to test performance
limitations and measure QoS and QoE -- quality of service and quality of
experience.

Shenick sells diversifEye to the world's foremost communications
equipment manufacturers, network service providers, governments and large
enterprises, such as banks and insurance companies. They use diversifEye to
both test their current systems and evaluate systems they're thinking of
buying.

Precise measurement of the user's QoS and QoE is of paramount importance
to triple-play service providers. One of the many key measures of quality
here is channel-surf rate. In other words, how long it takes to change a TV
channel?

Says Jessy Cavazos, a program manager at Frost & Sullivan, a prominent
industry analysis and consulting firm, "IPTV services and VoIP are highly
sensitive to quality of service issues. TV viewers in particular have zero
tolerance of video quality and performance problems, such as unacceptable
delays in channel change times."

Adds Shenick's Robert Winters, "Delays of only a few seconds could easily
drive IPTV customers back to traditional TV service providers."

To help prevent that, diversifEye offers full IGMP multicast emulation
for testing applications such as IPTV and VoD (video on demand), along with
high-speed Internet services, including HTTP, e-mail and streaming, and such
delay-sensitive applications as VoIP, all running concurrently. Moreover, the
operations can be viewed in both real time and simulations and projections
based on current activity, either from the point of view of thousands of
users or only one.

No one else in our industry can offer this choice.

Founded in 2000, Shenick Network Systems is based in Dublin, Ireland,
with offices in San Francisco, Atlanta and Stuttgart. For more information,
visit www.shenick.com or contact Robert Winters directly:

robert.winters@shenick.com

Tel: +353-1-236 7002

And, at Supercomm, we are at MEF Superdemo booth 48085E. Do drop by and
take a closer look at diversifEye.

Source: Shenick Software Systems Ltd

Robert Winters, robert.winters@shenick.com, Tel: +353-1-236 7002

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