Product Announcement: IMPEQ announces the release of SAM version 3 that includes some 40 new features.
The Service Analysis and Monitoring combines the tooling for monitoring all digital TV and broadcast services on 24x7 basis, throughout the processing chain with the ability to drill deep into the transport streams to analyse network parameters, DVB & ISDB structure, signalling and MPEG information.
Now in it’s third generation of development and successful deployment. SAM features a user friendly online quality analysis of all broadcast television and radio signals.
NEW FEATURES:
Conditonal Access (CAS):
- New Scrambling control view (Delay Times and Simulcrypt relationships),
- ECM view,
- Check on scrambling control field.
Service Information:
- EIT p/f and EIT schedule in one overview.
Alarm Management:
- Improved Time to Alarm thresholds,
- Include periods (service and components),
- ACC stream report of pids and bandwidth in .txt format,
- Mail functionality in ACC using SMTP,
- GPI out with SL10 connection via SNMP,
- Predefined templates,
- Services and components,
- Multi alarm groups ( A to E),
- Group selectable alarms set to all
Content Analysis:
- Exclude area in black frame measurement,
- Indication of aspect ratio in display,
- Parsing of SEI (H264), SEI viewer ( AFD value’s),
- Selectable stream bit rate measurement,
- Upgraded multi-viewer,
- Selectable audio and DVB subtitle pid,
- DVB subtitle viewer,
- Parsing of DVB subtitles in tree,
- Black & freeze frame and audio silence in engine,
- Pool Bite rate grouping per transport stream,
- PCR – PTS triggers,
- Time selectable CBR & VBR measurements,
- Default settings data in TXT, DVB-sub and DATA,
- Maintenance mode, Stream, service and component loadable profiles,
- Decodability check of DVB subtitles.
User Interface:
- Undockable and selectable windows from GUI,
- Selectable monitor window,
- Stacked bandwidth view in Bitrates tab,
- Add and Remove Display’s from ACC TS views,
System:
- Watchdog in probe,
- 32 & 64 bit OS supported,
- OS windows 7 Professional supported (32 & 64 bit),
- ACC client access credential,
- SAM Performance Monitor Tool.
New license options:
- WEB server Alarm forwarding in PDA format,
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WEB server Alarm view in standard screen format.
ROUND THE CLOCK MONITORING
The Service Analysis and Monitoring combines the tooling for monitoring all digital TV and broadcast services on 24x7 basis, throughout the processing chain with the ability to drill deep into the transport streams to analyse network parameters, DVB & ISDB structure, signalling and MPEG information.
The monitoring tooling can be considered the domain of the operations centre and the analysis functions are geared towards 2nd tier or engineering staff. Alongside this, SAM supports a reporting mechanism to provide the input for the service managers and their discussions surrounding the availability of services.
THE BENEFITS
Fault assessment on PID/service/transport stream level is done on template basis (templates can be created using snapshots) alongside with ETR290 measurements and black frame/audio silence detection.
All DVB and ISDB delivery networks (DVB-T/S/C, IPTV and ISDB-T) can be served in a scalable or mixed architecture using network probes centralised data accumulation server and clients.
SAM is Monitoring, Analysing, Displaying, Alarming, Reporting, Recording and Archiving 24x7.