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You can use Netrounds to generate and analyze various types of traffic. You can also monitor existing services, such as live IPTV. Please continue reading below to see examples of different uses.
Pre-analysis for deployment of IPTV
Are you concerned about how your network would handle IPTV? Then Netrounds is your perfect solution since it can generate artificial IPTV to ensure that the service performance is sufficient all the way through your own network. You can also verify the channel zapping times and make sure that there is no multicast leakage between different switch ports.
Figure 1. One of your Netrounds probes generates artificial multicast IPTV, which then is analyzed by other probes that you place at various locations in your network.
Monitoring of real IPTV
If you have already introduced IPTV in your network, it is essential that you make sure that your network does not degrade the TV signal. You can conveniently place a Netrounds probe where the TV signal is connected to your network. Netrounds can then make reference measurements to give you information about possible errors already present on the incoming signal.
Figur 2. Your Netrounds probes can easily measure the quality of the IPTV channels you have in your network.
Pre-analysis or monitoring of IP telephony
You can let your Netrounds probes generate IP telephony traffic and analyze voice quality (MOS) and other relevant parameters such as packet loss and response times.
Figur 3. In this application, your Netrounds probes generate VoIP traffic between each other and measure speech quality (MOS).
Control of traffic priority and transparency
By sending a number of parallel flows between two or more Netrounds probes, many different network characteristics of controlled. Among other things, you can verify the traffic priority, both with TCP and UDP protocols. In addition, you can check if and how QoS markings change, both in the VLAN header (p-bits) and IP header (TOS / DSCP).
Figur 4. You can flexibly use two or more Netrounds probes to generate multiple traffic flows with TCP and UDP.
Quicktests of your end users' network performance
By activating "Browser-based quicktests" in one or several of your measurement probes, you can make it possible for your end users to initiate tests in your network. In this way, you can easily get information on your network's performance all the way to the end users. By using a standard web browser, the end users can initiate a test of TCP throughput, response times and indicative packet loss figures.
The test results are stored in the central test server, which means that you can easily search, filter and get statistics of all executed tests. In case the test results indicates problems in certain network areas or at different end user locations, you could preferably locate a dedicated measurement probe there to carry our more advanced troubleshooting by using other powerful features in Netrounds.
Figure 5. An end user in your network can perform tests from a standard web browser. These tests provide information on TCP throughput, response times and also indicative packet loss figures. As with all other tests in Netrounds, the results are stored on the central server which is included in the service.
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