The telecommunication industry is still in the early stages of triple play bundles (voice, video and Internet), offering substantial savings for choosing a single provider and a single bill. To ensure that service providers offer clear TV pictures, fast Internet connections and downloads, and high quality telephone service, testing will play an important role in this market. Consequently, the integrated triple play test equipment market is poised for tremendous growth, predicts market research firm Frost & Sullivan. As per its report, this market, which registered revenues of $91.7 million in 2006, is expected to hit revenues of $697.9 million by 2013 with the CAGR of 33.6% from 2006 to 2013.

Eyeing this emerging market, Sunrise Telecom Inc. has launched a highly integrated modular test toolkit (MTT) for the industry’s first comprehensive access infrastructure, in-home wiring and triple play services. According to the developer, this test system meets the urgent need for both access infrastructure and services testing in a single, handheld test set, enabling technicians to drive new standards in the customer quality of experience (QoE) by ensuring that the physical infrastructure and video, voice and data services are turned up right the first time.

Sunrise Telecom’s new MTT Triple Play series is crafted for installation and maintenance technicians testing the performance and QoE of an xDSL infrastructure. With this new test suite, technicians can test the physical plant, in-home wiring and IP-based services (IPTV, video on demand (VOD), VoIP, and data) with a single test set to ensure the high level of QoE customers demand.

"In today’s highly competitive market, QoE determines the success of new services and significantly impacts bottom-line performance. Sunrise Telecom’s innovative approach helps service providers enhance QoE, increase customer retention, and reduce operating expenses that would be driven higher by the need for multiple, single-purpose test sets and numerous truck rolls,” said Bahaa Moukadam, vice president of marketing for Sunrise Telecom’s Telecom Products Group.

Designed to offer portability, functionality, and ease of use, the new MTT Triple Play series features include:

• Copper, Fiber and xDSL testing: Full suite of outside plant copper assessment tests covering the voice to VDSL2 frequency range; Fiber OTDR and power meter; and xDSL CPE Emulation allowing the technician to verify achievable data rate, SNR Margin, and error counter metrics against Pass/Fail thresholds
• In-home wiring: Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA) Device Emulation critical for assessing the in-home wiring capability to support IPTV signals by running HPNA diagnostic tests
• Services testing including IPTV Set Top Box emulation with MPEG video stream analysis, Voice and Data over IP test suite.

Unlike alternatives, which test only Layer 1 or individual services, the MTT Triple Play series integrates comprehensive functionality into a single, easy-to-use test set, increasing technicians’ effectiveness and shortening the time required to turn up services and complete customers’ service requests. By eliminating the need for multiple test tools for infrastructure and services testing, the MTT Triple Play series reduces the number of truck rolls required for proper installation and maintenance and helps service providers realize a higher, faster return on their triple play investments, noted Moukadam.

The Triple Play series is part of the MTT modular handheld platform. The advanced cable maintenance (ACM II) chassis features a family of plug-in modules, which include –41FTTN premise module and –19 A T1 ADSL2+ ATU-R module.

www.sunrisetelecom.com

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