Building on the incredible hardware-based IP monitoring capabilities of Sencore’s VideoBRIDGE probes, the VB330-V is a virtual probe that operates on any standard, high-performance server blade. It has the same feature set and capabilities as the hardware-based VB330 10G probe and they can be mixed and matched to achieve the best configuration for each customer’s requirements.
The VB330-V is aimed at monitoring the full cross section of services commonly found in media related network operations. The VB330-V is a very flexible tool for monitoring network performance involving signal formats and areas as diverse as video IP multicast, video OTT/ABR streaming, voice trunks, video-on-demand unicast, Ethernet packet micro bursts, PCAP recording and general traffic protocol inspection.
- Continuous monitoring of up to 2000 IP multicasts in parallel
- Monitor 500 OTT/ABR streams
- Visual graphing of jitter, packet loss and bandwidth performance with at least 4 days of history for all IP multicasts
- Framework for automatic detection of present multicast/unicast stream
- Protocol hierarchy view with bandwidth and packet count statistics for each active video interface
- Functionality for relaying any IP multicast monitored to a different IP destination for further analysis or recording (Remote Data Path - RDP)
- IGMPv2/v3 protocol logging and analysis framework
- Flexible template based alarming system to allow custom configuration of what parameters result in an alarm being generated on a per-TS level
- PCAP capture of up to 2GB of data for further analysis using Wireshark or similar
- Micro-bursting jitter analysis for monitoring total 10G trunk load
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging support
- Thumbnail decoding of multicast/unicast IP transport streams
- ETSI TS 102 034 support
- SMPTE 2022 FEC support
- Microsoft MediaRoom™ X-bit RTP header extension support
- Alarm on changes to TOS/DSCP and TTL for detection of changes in network prioritization
- Time loss distance measurements according to RFC3357
- MediaWindow™ visualization technology for trending packet loss and jitter over time
- Full Service Monitoring of any network device via built-in ICMP and HTTP query agents
- Searchable alarm lists
- Alarm forwarding to 3rd party systems via SNMP TRAP via up to 3 unique destinations
- NTP client time synchronization support according to RFC2030
- Easy web-based software and license upgrade
- XML-based configuration save and retrieval via web
- Powerful and openly available XML-based External Integration Interface (Eii) for 3rd party integration
- Condensed mosaic thumbnail view of all services monitored
- Monitor current/min/max UDP payload bitrate
- Monitor current/min/max TS payload not counting NULL TS packets
- Count number of IP packets
- Source/destination IP address
- Type-of-service field (TOS/DSCP)
- Time-to-live field (TTL)
- VLAN ID, if present
- Max/min/average IP packet inter-arrival time (IAT) for jitter analysis
- TS Continuity counter errors
- TS Sync errors
- Media loss rate - number of TS packets lost
- Source/destination MAC address
- RTP dropped packets, duplicate packets, out-of-order packets
- RTP max/min hole size, hole separation
- Forward error correction analysis according to SMPTE 2022
