Shenick Assists in Zhone's Triple Play

Shenick Assists in Zhone's Triple Play

DUBLIN, Ireland, July 13/PRNewswire/ -- "What we have is the Internet TV equivalent of half-time at the Super
Bowl and millions of traditional TV viewers suddenly running water and using
the phone," says Robert Winters, co-founder of Shenick Network Systems.

"In our case, an Internet TV (IPTV) provider can have hundreds of
thousands of customers using the system in various ways, 24 hours a day. The
quality of experience the users enjoy has always been a major concern and it
is even more so, now that telecom companies are offering so-called triple
play services - high-speed Internet, video (IPTV) and voice applications,
such as delay-sensitive VoIP. Zhone Technologies of Oakland, California,
provides the industry with superb triple-play infrastructure, and I am happy
to announce that they are now using Shenick's diversifEye as a prime quality
testing tool."

Essentially, diversifEye is 10,000 triple play users in a box. That is,
it can emulate an almost infinite variety of user traffic scenarios, with
IPTV, high-speed internet, voice applications, streaming and other services
all running simultaneously.

It can show how a system responds to everything from one IPTV viewer's
experience all the way up to the endless traffic variations generated by
millions of Internet users. Accordingly, diversifEye provides a highly
granular test tool, in that it gives the testers a close look at one grain of
sand or the entire beach in every imaginable circumstance. No other testing
tool in the industry has this one-to-millions scalability.

"We understand that, at the end of the day, triple play's all about the
user's quality of experience" says Steve Klein, Zhone's director of Video
Services Products. "There is zero compromise, when it comes to issues such as
IPTV quality, and Zhone required a highly granular, realistic perspective on
service and performance, right down to the individual viewer level."

Using diversifEye, Zhone has created a highly sophisticated array of
tests. For example, they can measure and compare the quality of service
received by an IPTV viewer who changes channels every few minutes and one who
thumbs the remote every few seconds; and, of course, thousands of users with
differing change rates can be built into a test, as well.

"And it doesn't stop there," says Shenick's Robert Winters. "diversifEye
is stackable, so if two chassis are connected, you'll double the number of
emulated users, and so forth. It can also emulate household usage. In Europe,
telecom companies are already delivering IPTV to people's television sets.
That will be in North America soon. So, it's essential for Zhone to be able
to create and test household usage profiles, in which, say, one person is on
the Web, one is using the phone and others are watching TV, and diversifEye
gives them that capability, too. I don't know much about baseball, but I
understand that a triple play is extremely rare. Our customers execute their
triple plays every second of the day."

About Shenick:

Established in 2000 and based in Dublin, Shenick has deployed its
diversifEye integrated network, application and security attack emulation and
performance assurance test systems throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Major IP-oriented network service providers, communications equipment
manufacturers, large enterprises and governments rely on Shenick's
diversifEye to assess their network, application and security infrastructure
performance limitations. Shenick's diversifEye addresses key next-generation
converged network and application performance issues covering Triple Play,
Security Attack Mitigation, Traffic Shaping/Peer to Peer (P2P), Application
Server, Metro Ethernet and IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network deployments. For further
information please visit www.shenick.com.

About Zhone:

www.zhone.com

Source: Shenick Network Systems Ltd

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

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