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The Video Service Assurance (VSA) Platform —
Multiscreen
Scalable, virtualized solutions providing comprehensive network
intelligence and visibility for adaptive bit rate services

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TheVSAPlatform
Videoserviceproviderswhoensurequalityofservice(QoS)andquality
ofexperience(QoE)facesubstantialchallenges.Withexponentially
increasingtrafficandfewcorrespondingincreasesinrevenue,theymust:
• Increase internal efficiency and productivity
• Decrease OpEx and shorten mean-time-to-repair
• Launch new services faster
• Leverage and monetize a vast amount of network, service, and
customer intelligence
• Converge legacy video with high-speed IP data networks
The traffic/revenue disconnect
How customer experience impacts customer satisfaction
Yet providers and operators need more.Visibility into a subscriber’s
quality of experience is key to reducing churn by providing improved
customer service, the primary factor impacting customer satisfaction.
Networks must also yield actionable intelligence for marketing new
services and offers tuned to demographics and, ultimately, individuals.
• End of“unlimited”plans
• Revenue increase: sharing business models and
tiered service introduced
• Moore’s law: lower cost/bit
Traffic vs. Revenue Growth
Voice era
Data era
Traffic
Revenues
Revenues and
traffic gap
narrow
Video MOS Score Quality Defect Perception
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4
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2
1
Imperceptible
Perceptible
Slightly Annoying
Annoying
Very Annoying
KeyBenefits
• Maximize revenue — minimize churn; use customer intelligence
to target new products and promotions; speed time-to-revenue;
prevent billing system errors
• Reduce OpEx — identify problems before subscribers are impacted;
reduce MTTR; verify content delivery networks (CDNs) are
performing per service level agreements (SLA)
• Reduce CapEx — scale with software rather than hardware,
leveraging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers to take
advantage of the quantum leaps in performance available every
year; support multiple services with one system
• Add value to in-house systems — quickly integrate any data source
or KPI to correlate results; view real-time events and statistics
KeyFeatures
• Simultaneously monitors thousands of programs using off-the-
shelf hardware
• Reveals multiscreen end-user QoE and identifies impairments with
video MOS
• Assures services end-to-end
• Monitors performance and troubleshoots anywhere in the network
• Presents insights in an integrated and visually-relevant way
• Streamlinesin-housesystemsusingtheopenplatform’spowerfulAPI
The video service assurance (VSA) platform is a highly cost-effective,
scalable solution for multiscreen services that gives visibility at every
strategic and critical network location. It combines video assurance
monitoring software with commercially available, off-the-shelf
hardware to create easily deployable points of presence in headends,
networks, and end-user devices.
The platform addresses the most demanding assurance and analytics
applications requirements. Its extremely efficient data collection,
state-of-the-art flow, and transaction analytics engine, combined with
in-memory processing for all analysis and correlation functions, add
unparalleled scalability. Extremely flexible service modeling and policy
management capabilities letVSA components easily scale as needed
when adding new network device types, types of services, or service
level agreements (SLAs).
TheVSA multiscreen application
Video Service Assurance Solution
IPTV Cable TV
Multi-Screen
TV (ABR)
Multiscreen
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Additional features include:
• Ad validation
• CDN certification
• Service tier adherence
• Parental control checking
• Packet retransmit monitoring
• Support for SDN/NFV architectures
End-UserQoE
VSA Embedded performs end-user QoE to proactively measure
customer experience.This helps reduce churn, localize issues for faster
repair, and ends finger-pointing about SLA performance.
Reported data includes:
• Fulfillment success rates and error distributions
• Content availability and integrity
• Response time conformance
• Localized issues causing packet loss in home,Wi-Fi, 4G/LTE, DSLAM/
node, hub/CO, metro or core
• Ad insertion failure rate
• Real-time ad avails for sales/marketing monetization
Applications
TheVSA platform supports three primary applications.
ContentIngestValidation
TheVSA Streaming component validates content ingestion with
pre-and post-packager monitoring for live video content. It ensures
that live content is not impaired by the active devices at the ingest,
reducing the analysis burden on the end device to determine video
quality.
Features include:
• Video quality checking
• IP/MPEG monitoring
• Loudness monitoring
• Integrated on-demand troubleshooting
• Support for SDN/NFV architectures
Turn-UpandServiceTesting
TheVSA Agent performs turn-up and service testing using distributed
software agents to monitor live andVoD services before and after
launch. It simulates multiple users requesting live andVoD content,
runs load tests to verify capacity, performs scheduled content analysis
including authentication, authorization, accounting/billing (AAA)
verification, and analyzes video MOS. It is easily deployable across the
network for full visibility.
VSA components implemented for multiscreen services
Ingest Access Subscriber
ABR Workflow
VSAe collector
MetroCore
Transcode Fragment
and DRM
Origin and
caching servers
VSA Monitor
Live TV
VSA
Streaming
VSA
Agent
Active
test
VSA
Embedded
VSA-RF100
RF
MPEG
DOCSIS
VoD
General set-up
issues, user
validation issues,
low or floating
resolution,
pixelization, issues
with player,
operating system
updates
Satellite receiver
errors, program
availability,
loudness,
transcoding errors
Bad end-point
synchronization,
metadata/manifest
inconsistency, disk
and streamer errors,
policy issues
Network congestion,
policy management,
packet loss, streamer
handoff failures
Transport errors,
modulator errors,
last-mile checkpoint
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VSAStreaming
VSA Streaming is a real-time MPEG video
analyzer for parallel troubleshooting and
monitoring of multiscreen performance. It cost-
effectively and scalably monitors:
• High- and medium-density transport
• The edge
• TR 101-290
• Program timing health
• High-density headend
• Audio loudness and closed-captioning (important for CALM
compliance)
It supports unique thresholds per stream and program to minimize
false alarms. In addition, it performs ingest and pre-/post-transcode for
multiscreen video, displays video MOS for simplified results, captures
multiple streams with pre-triggering, and provides remote video
viewing.
VSA Streaming ensures that monitoring results are consistent
with troubleshooting information, enabling a seamless transfer of
information toTier 2 and 3 groups.This prevents repeat investigations
with different tools.
It scales across the network quickly, flexibly, and economically:
• 2X10 G ports → 5,000 programs
• 16X1 G ports → 4,000 programs
• Intel NIC → Low-cost edge monitoring
• ASI → IRD and legacy monitoring
VSAComponents
TheVSA platform consists of a number of components that scale to
perform with virtually any network configuration.
Component Description Implementation
VSA Monitor Real-time correlation of video
impairments and trends issues
by category such as geography,
asset, and device type
Software running on
off-the-shelf server
or virtual machine.
VSA Streaming Real-time protocol analyzer for
parallel troubleshooting and
monitoring of any video service
Software running on
off-the-shelf server
or virtual machine
VSA-RF100 Real-time monitoring and
troubleshooting solution for
radio frequency (RF), MPEG, and
data over cable service interface
specification (DOCSIS®) services
which also carry multiscreen
RF probe with
switches
VSA Agent Monitoring of multiscreen video
using distributed agents to check
authorization, authentication,
accounting, availability, manifest
file, service tier conformance, and
video MOS
Software running on
off-the-shelf server
or virtual machine
VSA
Embedded
End-user device measurements
revealing true end-user video QoE
Software compiled
into end-user video
player applications
VSAMonitor
HTML5-basedVSA Monitor is the element management system (EMS)
for allVSA components. Supporting multiple workgroups, it provides
remote access to historical and live displays of sites, test points, maps,
programs, and assets in its event viewer dashboard. Alarming uses
simple network management (SNMP) protocol trap forwarding,
sending SNMP traps when alarm states change. Published APIs
simplify customizing and incorporating external data sources .
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RF health summary
All programs on all streams all the time
VSA-RF100
TheVSA-RF100 provides remote RF, MPEG, and DOCSIS® monitoring
and analysis of forward path signals and is ideal for remote, unmanned
hub sites and headends. It monitors service levels to identify packet
loss, missing audio, and missing programs—not just RF health. And,
it uniquely sees RF issues invisible to other systems, including bursty
events and ingress under the carrier.
Additional features include:
• 44 dB MER analyzer-grade measurements
• Digital quality index (DQI) to identify bursty problems
• Packet identifier (PID) bit rate monitoring with scrambling/
encryption detection
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VSAAgent
VSAAgentrepresentsafamilyofdistributedand
easilydeployablesoftwareagentsthatenable
activemultiscreenservicemonitoring,verification,
andloadtestingacrossthenetwork.Itintegrates
withauthorization,authentication,andaccounting
systemsforfullservicevalidation.TheVSAAgentalsochecksavailability,
manifestfiles,servicetierconformance,andvideoMOS.
Additional features include:
• Packet retransmit monitoring
• Live/VoD content play-out verification
• Parental control checking
• Verification of program lineup changes
• CDN certification for SLAs
VSAEmbedded
VSA Embedded Agent software is compiled into
end-user video player applications.This enables real-
time monitoring and reporting of multiscreen video
service performance and customer experience for
operators, segmenting issues affecting end-user quality. Embedded
agents enable analyzing the impact of device operating systems and
settings on performance.They also rank asset, access network, and
content-delivery network performance .
VSA
Agent
Active
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TheJDSUPortfolioforTurn-Up,Testing,and Assurance
JDSU products complementary to theVideo Service Assurance
platform include:
• ariesoGEO™— geolocates customer-centric KPIs from every event
of every customer call or data session, providing unprecedented
insight into network performance as experienced by the end
customer; ariesoGEO reveals problems impossible to detect using
network KPIs, often suggests the best solution, and provides all the
information needed to solve a problem
• DSAMdigitalserviceactivationmeter— this handheld field
meter for DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS cable modem installation helps
cable installers deploy high-speed data and video services faster
and more efficiently
• EdgeTrakCPEtestagent— EdgeTrak is a signal analysis
software agent built-into Broadcom-based CPE for qualifying and
troubleshooting HFC network issues without interfering with
customer service
• EtherASSURE™— a next-generation Ethernet service
assurance solution for managing the full Ethernet life-cycle. It is
a fully integrated, highly scalable, standards compliant test and
performance monitoring solution, with unique ability to monitor
and segment performance in real time, using real subscriber traffic
• OneExpertDSLmodularfieldtestplatform— OneExpert DSL
helps field technicians get it right—the first time; a multitouch, user-
friendly interface and OneCheck™ automated tests ease complex
tasks with clear pass/fail results, and its future-proof modules ensure
years of use supporting access and home networks
JDSU
NetComplete®
EtherAS
SURE™

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• xSIGHT™real-timeintelligence(RTI)platform — a carrier-grade
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• RANAdvisor™andRANAdvisorTrueSite™ — the industry’s
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