What Is It?
Fovea is a streaming video analysis tool that is designed to monitor up to 500 simultaneous video streams. The unit give the user flexibility to serve a wide range of applications associated with network performance and its ability to support video applications.
 

What Does It Do?

Fovea simulates a user watching and changing channels. While watching a channel, quality measurements are performed to determine the user's overall quality experience while channel surfing, Zap Time measurements are performed to determine how quickly network elements respond to commands.
 

How Does It Work?

The actions of each simulated  set-top box are independently controlled in each script. These actions simulate a user controlling a set-top box with a remote. Commands include Wait, Watch and Surf.

Wait indicates the amount of time the user performs an action or non-actions. Watch selects a particular video stream in which the measurements will be performed. Surf commands the Fovea to surf a range of channels so that Zap Times can be calculated. Virtual STB's operate either synchronously or "randomly". "Random" actions may be reproduced thus allowing a failure mode to be recreated.

What Can It Test?

• Quality of Service Testing
• Network Testing
• Server Congestion