Tektronix MTS4000 Stream Analyzer

The MTS4000 MPEG Test System provides comprehensive MPEG transport stream analysis and interoperability testing capabilities. It deeply analyzes transport streams, PES, and elementary streams, helping to trace the source of image anomalies and identify syntax errors in the transport stream. It can capture events for in-depth analysis, which is crucial for identifying the root cause of issues. The optional Quality of Experience (QoE) analysis tools identify damage and distortion that can be directly traced back to network problems, reducing the time taken to find the root cause of issues.

Key Features

• The industry's fastest analysis engine reduces the time required to obtain necessary information, enabling rapid development, evaluation, deployment, and diagnosis of next-generation DTV and IPTV systems and services.
• Additionally, it supports various DTV standards, including MPEG, DVB, ATSC, ISDB, and ISDB-TB (Brazil); terrestrial, cable, and satellite-specific SI, as well as regional variations of these standards.
• Multiple interfaces and analysis capabilities provide the necessary connectivity to diagnose issues anywhere in the network environment, whether in the transmission link (RF or IP layer) or content processing (TS layer).
• Connects to both IPv4 and IPv6 networks, including those using IGMP and MLD multicast protocols.
• Simultaneously analyzes constant and variable bit rate transport streams (CBR and VBR).¹
• Integrated cross-layer fault analysis and logging provide a single product solution for diagnosing faults, reducing the time to obtain necessary information during debugging.
• Playback functionality offers parameterization and IP multi-session reproduction capabilities for analyzing the behavior characteristics of the network or the Device Under Test (DUT).
• CaptureVu® technology captures and analyzes system events in real-time and with delay, debugging intermittent and complex issues that traditional analyzers may miss.
• Program-centric innovative user interfaces provide expert-level features for novice users.
• The H.265 (HEVC) and H.264 buffer analysis, multiplexing, and ES consistency checking features provide a powerful set of tools for creating and analyzing transport streams that contain H.265 (HEVC) and H.264 content.
• Video and audio quality analysis helps differentiate between damage caused by network broadcasting and distortion caused by compression.
• Use the analysis software to connect multiple computers to the network (optional FLT).

Application

Equipment Manufacturer – R&D

• CaptureVu® technology can quickly isolate and troubleshoot device and system issues.

• High-performance line-rate Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) IP connectivity and integrated cross-layer analysis capabilities can diagnose complex timing issues in IP video and IPTV network devices.

• Multiplexers/Demultiplexers can flexibly create and modify test flows.

• Quickly and thoroughly analyze the selected unit of the transmission flow, confirming functionality and compliance with standards.

• Set-top Box Buffer Testing and Inspection
• Basic flow analysis options for codec design and optimization

• High-precision image quality analysis, based on human visual models, optimizes device design and enables problem diagnosis.

• The Tclips testing stream, combined with multiplexers/demultiplexers, allows for the creation and editing of custom testing streams, enabling quick and flexible device stress testing.

• The transmission stream playback and recording features provide a repeatable test source for testing and aligning set-top boxes, IRDs, and modulators, along with seamless looping and continuous time-stamping capabilities.

• Multi-port ASI and IP interfaces can simultaneously test multiple devices.

• Duplex operation can perform end-to-end testing on system network elements.

Broadcast Owner and Network Operator Engineering Design

• The RF and IP connectivity and analysis features provide a single product solution for debugging broadcast systems at any point in the network.

• Integrated cross-layer fault analysis and logging, diagnosing network faults, has reduced the time required to obtain necessary information during debugging, eliminating the need for additional IP or RF-specific diagnostic equipment.

• CaptureVu® technology can isolate intermittent network issues that other analyzers cannot.

• Video and audio quality analysis helps differentiate between damage caused by network broadcasting and distortion caused by compression.

• Basic flow consistency testing options, evaluating compression equipment from different manufacturers, diagnosing various faults.

Summary of MTS4000 tools

• Standard tools
  • Real-time and Delayed Transmission Stream Consistency Testing Analyzer (TSCA), including Data Carousel Analyzer and Gigabit Ethernet (NIC) interface.
  • Player
  • TS Cutter
• Optional Tools
  • Video quality software, single-ended; includes VQS1000 and all options.
  • Image quality analysis software, single-ended and double-ended; includes PQASW and IP options.
  • Transmission stream generation, including multiplexer, TS editor, Make Seamless, data carousel generator, and Tclips test stream.
  • Standard ES analysis, including MTS4CC and all options plus MPEG-2 ES analyzer.
  • Enhanced ES analysis, including MTS4EAV7 (basic software or with all options) plus MPEG-2 ES analyzer.
  • PES and T-STD Buffer Analyzer

Summary of the provided MTS4000 interface

• Standard interfaces
  • Ethernet IP (10/100/1000BASE-T)
• Optional Interfaces
  • Multi-port ASI Interface
  • IPTV Gigabit Ethernet Interface¹(10/100/1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-SX, LX, ZX)
  • 10GBASE-SR Dual Fiber Port 10 Gb/s NIC; includes Short-Range SFP+ Module (850 nm)
  • Dual-input DVB-S/S2 interface, supporting QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK, and 32APSK demodulation.