Network Performance Testing

Shenick announces diversifEye software Release 5.2

Shenick announced their new diversifEye software version 5.2 yesterday, which includes a number of updates and new features.   Most notably, the ability to test session initiation protocol (SIP) controlled video on demand (VoD).   I would imagine there are a lot of carriers and providers that would benefit greatly from this feature, and I'm not aware of anyone else having this functionality yet. Other additional updates include (from their press release):

• Enhanced capture replay capabilities with support for UDP/IP replay such as Skype™ and PCAP substitution.
• Upgraded post-test analysis reporting tools.
• HTTP ‘POST’ (File Support) and ‘Header’ Updates.
• Increased productivity and test flexibility with;
  • Test support for an enhanced range of VoD servers,
  • Subscriber emulation activity cycles, emulating individual users enabling/disabling broadband access during a test cycle,
  • Full HD 1080i over UDP/IP/RTP video flow support for broadcast applications.
• Increased visibility with TCP connection timing statistics.
• Additional OS platform support.
• In addition to testing IPTV, VoD, VoIP, DPI, security devices, IPv4 and/or IPv6, newer diversifEye applications include:
  • DOCSIS & EURODOCSIS 3.0
  • WiMAX & LTE
  • DLP

Gale joins TesLA Alliance

Announced yesterday, Gale Technologies has joined the TesLA Alliance.  I'm happy to see more folks joining the alliance, and I look forward to working with Gale in my capacity as a customer advisory board member. Gale's technology is pretty neat - something I'm investigating at work as I mentioned in a previous post.   I'm particularly interested in a system that will automatically provision and configure test architectures, and allow for dynamic scheduling and interaction with those test architectures from various different automation systems. Our system now is home grown, and while it serves it's purpose well, doesn't allow for as much flexibility as many of the commercial products.  We have yet to decide whether we'll buy one, or just add on to our own - still need to finish our evaluation of the various solutions out there first. More on that later...