Video Monitoring and Analysis

OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering real-time Video over IP monitoring and analysis combined with VoIP, Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, and WAN.

With next generation networks in place and businesses rolling out more end user Video over IP applications, network engineers need the ability to analyze all network traffic with specific analysis of Video streams. OmniPeek Enterprise allows engineers to determine when different types of traffic adversely affect each other.

Video over IP presents a daunting set of challenges

• Video over IP dramatically increases the pressure on network engineers to resolve problems quickly. Why? Because end users who might tolerate slow performance from a business application will have no patience for garbled or interrupted video and audio streams. Carrying professional video over IP networks has special challenges compared to most non-time-critical IP traffic. Many of these problems are similar to those encountered in voice over IP, but to a much higher level of engineering requirements. In particular, there are very strict quality of service requirements which must be fulfilled for use in professional broadcast environments.
• Video over IP requires network engineers to immediately become experts at video technology. Video over IP services can be degraded by Video and Audio application and protocol problems, by basic network problems, or by a combination of both. Until recently, most network engineers had to choose between network analyzers and Voice and Video over IP analyzers—no tool integrated both types of analysis in a useful and affordable way. As a result, no engineer had all the monitoring and analysis technology necessary to find and fix faults on Video over IP networks.
• Most Video over IP monitoring and troubleshooting products are hardware-based, proprietary, expensive, and too bulky to be portable. Cumbersome, hardware-based solutions increase the expense of Video over IP deployments and make it difficult for engineers to diagnose problems on site. When monitoring and troubleshooting tools become too expensive, they may be dropped from the deployment budget entirely, leaving network engineers without any solution for finding and fixing Video over IP faults.

Our VoIP Monitoring and Analysis Solution

• Unified Communications Readiness Assessment

• OmniPeek Enterprise

Video over IP Monitoring and Analysis with OmniPeek

For organizations deploying Video over IP, the WildPackets Network Analysis Solutions blend the abilities to monitor and analyze all network traffic with specific analysis of Video streams allowing you to determine when different types of traffic adversely affect each other. OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, WAN, and Voice and Video over IP diagnostics in real-time.

Without any expensive video processing hardware, OmniPeek Enterprise can monitor and analyze open video streams - providing unsurpassed capacity for post-deployment Video over IP troubleshooting. At a glance, you have in-depth analysis of latency, throughput, and numerous network problems in a conversation-centered display. You can see all the streams in the order in which they were captured, with caller, callee, and end cause information, as well as comprehensive signaling analysis of H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG, etc. OmniPeek Enterprise also evaluates and displays the call setup mechanism, in real-time, measuring stream setup durations and providing a Call Detail Record (CDR) for each open stream.

Business Benefits

• Monitoring and analysis of all wireless traffic on a network to mitigate poor performance generated by competition for network bandwidth
• Verification of video quality, including the use of MOS and Video Service Quality scores, using the same tool deployed for overall network analysis and monitoring
• Ongoing compliance with established network policies to mitigate critically disruptive Video over IP problems