Streaming Media

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Streaming Media

Investigate the possibilities of delivering video to the of mobile phones, but also other devices.

We provide unique testing tools that makes radio performance directly visible on the screen, and detailed knowledge about the transport and session is accessible for you in a live web-based monitor.

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Why Streaming Media?

Streaming is the major path to provide video content to

mobile phones.

– However, mobile devices come in many different flavors, so detailed knowledge is needed to make streaming available to as many phones as possible.

– We are working with standardization and prototyping of streaming and have therefore developed tools that can be very useful in in investigation potential issues and optimizing streaming transport.

– We have bundled some of our tools to provide you with the means to investigate, experiment with and monitor how media is streamed to your mobile phone or other devices.

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Main features

3GPP-compliant, IMTC-tested streaming server

Unique Visual Loss Source:

– Packet losses shown as “missing bricks”

– Can test various bitrates

Test content with many different encodings

Live Monitor: Follow the state of an on-going streaming session

Off-line log of your tests

REST-API for accessing the test data

Collaborative list of working phone/content combinations

More features to come: Adaptive streaming, Possibility to upload your content

Live Monitor

“Visual Loss” Source

Packet Losses

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Streaming Media Overview

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Live Monitor: Screen-Shot

Time, since TCP connection established

IP Statistics

Expand for Message Details

Message Direction, Sequence Number

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