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Spirent Communications fired all barrels at the triple-play market this week with new quality of service capabilities, including a partnership with Psytechnics, a new converged impairment emulator test system, a condensed version of its Abacus IP Telephony platform, a scalable Ethernet access concentrator and a new field tester called Tech-X.

"Video testing is counterintuitive for service providers. We provide the most insight for where service providers lack the most experience," said Mark Fishburn, vice president of technical strategy for Spirent.

Spirent's DLS A2PX and the Spirent DLS V2x test systems validate the readiness of emerging high-speed access infrastructures, including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, emerging technologies being adopted by service providers to expand subscriber access capacity to support converged triple-play voice, data and video services.

The expanded test solutions meet the growing QOS requirements associated with video service delivery, they conform to industry standards and support carrier-grade triple-play traffic. They also interoperate with existing equipment, including DSL modems and DSL Access Multiplexers.

The company's Network Impairment Emulator helps carriers develop triple-play service bundles for residential and enterprise customers by testing the service impact of IP infrastructure impairments. It also integrates multidimensional tests on a single system.

The Spirent Converged Network Impairment Emulator provides analysis of infrastructure, applications, security, service and provisioning performance under a broad range of customer test scenarios.

"Service providers have been managing networks. Going forward, they'll have to have much better ability to manage services," said Anders Gustafsson, CEO of Spirent.

Spirent's newly Distributed Abacus 53 IP Telephony and Video Rollout System is designed to assess and validate infrastructure performance, voice and video media quality in preproduction triple-play networks. The more economical form factor is ideally suited for distributed deployment at key locations on the network.

Spirent bundled 20 critical test scenarios that enable service providers to implement QOS to ensure customer loyalty. The testing scenarios address voice, video and data applications load testing; large scale emulation of VoIP terminal, set-top, cable modem and other devices; voice and video quality measurements; RTP with IPTV tests; testing of unicast and multicast video content and dynamic IP network impairment tests.