Cisco delighted the testers at Light Reading and the European Advanced Networking Test Center with its end-to-end IPTV package, which the testers took apart for scalability, resilience and quality of service.
According to Light Reading, “The test indicated that standard techniques alone won’t get the job jone, as Cisco demonstrated some proprietary features that would appear crucial for preserving video quality in a real-world deployment.”
A press release from Light Reading reads:
EANTC asked Cisco to design a core and aggregation network suitable for 1 million customers. EANTC and Cisco then built a portion of the network, serving 60,000 imaginary customers with traffic emulated on Spirent Communications equipment. The test network included Cisco’s CRS-1 core router and its 7600 series edge routers.
Test cases included many of the situations that would concern service providers, such as whether a spike in Internet traffic would affect IPTV video feeds. In every test case run by EANTC, Cisco passed.
The full test and results can be accessed here.
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