TS Analyzer is a small form factor dedicated hardware platform enabling remote and local broadcast stream monitoring analysis and recording. It can be used to monitor and analyze transport streams, log errors, and send error alarms.

As a compact sized device, it can be placed in hard to reach locations, with little or no infrastructure for rack mounted equipment, such as remote head-ends, distribution hubs, broadcast towers and remote unattended and unmanned premises.

Designed to replace old-school PCI cards, USB-based dongles and other laptop-dependent devices, TS Analyzer is a complete free-standing unit with its own CPU and can be left to monitor signals by itself without the need for a host system.

For the most precise measurements, hardware-based decoding is the most efficient and accurate means to measure critical parameters such as jitter and delay. Unlike other software solutions, the precision that can be achieved with TS Analyzer is unparalleled.

In day-to-day field operations the TS analyzer is a powerful compact tool that can receive and decode IP, ASI, and RF signals in a single package. Thus, eliminating the need for multiple portable analysis tools such as RF analyzers and dedicated devices for troubleshooting broadcast signals.

Capable of analyzing RF parameters such as MER, CNR, Eb/N0 and signal strength, TS Analyzer is a powerful and highly portable, self-contained instrument. TS Analyzer is all you need to verify signal, video quality and delivery path integrity.

Ease of use and efficiency are paramount for field operations. TS analyzer can be connected and configured in a matter of minutes, just assign an IP address and add a stream for analysis through a user friendly web interface.

TS Analyzer can simultaneously monitor up to 32 program streams. Transport stream errors are logged locally and can be sent to a remote Monitoring system.

TS analyzer allows you to monitor and analyze multiple transport and MPEG parameters at the lowest level. Accurately measure PCR, PTS, DTS, jitter and delay, SCTE 35 Ad insertion markers, ECM, EMM’s and view and decode your EPG.

Acquire and locally store stream captures for further troubleshooting. TS analyzer is integrated into the Multiprobe monitoring platform and can also forward SNMP traps. It can also be managed via REST API calls.

Transport stream and PSI/SI

• Full/effective bitrate
• Media loss rate (MLR), delay factor (DF), inter-packet arrival time (IPAT)
• Combined time graphs and histograms
• Service tree: service structure, component types, component summaries
• PSI/SI tree: tables, bitrates, repetition rates, CCE stats, descriptors
• PSI/SI can be downloaded and later uploaded for offline viewing
• PCR, PTS, DTS histograms and time graphs

PIDs

• Bitrate
• Repetition rate
• Packet counter
• CCE counter
• Status (OK, Unreferenced, Absent, Obsolete)
• Last status and change time
• PES header parsing

Video and audio

• Video and audio codec information (for FTA only)
• Video keyframe decoding

CAS statistics

• ECM
• EMM
• Crypto period for each stream
• CAS provider info

Alert log

• Single events are summarized within minute intervals
• PSI/SI and service events
• Service type, service name, PID, time interval, event and count are logged
• Filtering and sorting
• Log download

SCTE-35

• Automatic SCTE-35 discovery
• Selectively disable monitoring for any SCTE-35 PID
• SCTE-35 events downloadable log
• Message parsing

Statistics

• Current and archived stats (for 7 days)
• All measured and counted values are stored in current stats
• Input and TS errors are stored in archived stats
• Min, average and max values for continued values
• Counts for countable events
• Bouncing across timeline by 1, 10, 60 minutes intervals from a chosen moment
• Manual stats reset

Summary stat tables for

• Input streams
• ETSI TR 101 290 events
• PIDs
• CAS