Shenick Proves the Quality of Redback Networks Products in Triple Play Subscriber Rollouts

Shenick Proves the Quality of Redback Networks Products in Triple Play Subscriber Rollouts

'Assessment Right Down to the Individual Subscriber, Quality of Experience'

DUBLIN, Ireland, October 28/PRNewswire/ -- "What we have is the ability to emulate individual subscriber
traffic from thousands of households with a triple play mix of Internet TV
viewers, VoIP calls and high speed internet traffic" says Robert Winters,
co-founder and CMO of Shenick Network Systems.

"A triple play service 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 progressive telecom companies are offering triple play
services - high-speed Internet, video (IPTV) and voice applications, such as
delay-sensitive VoIP. Redback Networks of San Jose, California, provides the
industry with the highest quality edge routing and broadband subscriber
management infrastructure, and I am happy to announce that they are now using
Shenick's diversifEye as a prime quality of service, experience and proof of
concept testing tool."

Essentially, diversifEye offers thousands of triple play
broadband 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 under test 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 offer broadband subscriber management systems that must
perform under a variety of scalable operational conditions and usage
scenarios and at the end of the day, triple play's all about the user's
quality of experience" says Arpit Joshipura, Redback's Vice President,
Product Marketing and Management. "There is zero compromise, when it comes to
issues such as IPTV subscriber quality, and Redback required a highly
granular, realistic perspective on service and performance, right down
to the triple play subscriber household level and the individual users
therein"

Using diversifEye, Redback 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
subscriber usage which is a very important component in testing Redback
Networks SMS product line. Worldwide, telecom companies are already
delivering triple play broadband services. So, it's essential for Redback
to be able to create and test household subscriber 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."

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 or contact Robert
Winters directly:

About Redback Networks:

Redback Networks Inc., a leading provider of next-generation
broadband networking equipment, enables carriers and service providers to
build Smart Broadband Networks that can deliver simplified, personalized and
portable subscriber services to consumers and businesses. The company's
carrier-class, consumer-scale SmartEdge Router and Service Gateway platforms
for Broadband IP combine subscriber management systems, IP edge routing and
ethernet aggregation functions. In conjunction with the NetOpT Element and
Policy Manager platform it provides a powerful, flexible infrastructure for
managing both residential and business users offer a variety of value-added
services.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with
sales and technical support centers located worldwide, Redback Networks
maintains a growing and global customer base of more than 500 carriers and
service providers, including major local exchange carriers (LECs),
inter-exchange carriers (IXCs), PTTs and service providers. For more
information, visit Redback Networks at www.redback.com.

REDBACK and SmartEdge are trademarks registered at the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. NetOp is a trademark of
Redback Networks Inc. All other products or services mentioned are the
trademark, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks
of their respective owners.

diversifEye is a registered trademark of Shenick Network
Systems.

Source: Shenick Network Systems Ltd

For more information: Shenick, Robert Winters, Shenick Network Systems, +353-86-607-1002, Email: Robert.winters@shenick.com

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