(17 April 2007 6:15 pm)

MUMBAI: IPTV firm Kasenna announced that it has teamed with HP and Intel to complete a one-million-IPTV-subscriber benchmark test for broadcast television and bandwidth-intensive video on demand (VoD) services.

The benchmark test proved that an IPTV infrastructure developed by Kasenna, together with HP and Intel, can support one million subscribers, a company release states.

The test was conducted in a simulated access network environment at the HP Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) Solution Center in Grenoble, France.

As part of the certification process, the test center stress-tested the PortalTV infrastructure using a traffic model that subjected it to peak traffic patterns typical of Friday or Saturday evening consumer viewing.

The test bed, which can be tuned to specific subscriber and traffic scenarios, is designed to allow service providers to test the infrastructure for their own user-generated traffic patterns – both traditional and anticipated traffic – and a variety of stand-alone, centralized, and distributed-content distribution architectures as a means of proving the resiliency and scalability of the IPTV infrastructure before deployment.

The network supports a multi-user configuration in which multiple HP ProLiant DL380 G5 or BL480c servers running LivingRoom middleware software, each supporting up to 120,000 active subscribers, may be tested.