Microsoft Silverlight Player - Ixia

DATA SHEETThe HLS Player emulation can be used to:• Use in conjunction with HLS compatible media servers, content replication, and proxy devices, and contentload balancers.• Create large-scale HLS Player user sessions for load testing of devices and networks in order to measurethroughput capacity with reliable delivery of streams.• Emulate adaptive streaming behavior that dynamically up-shifts or down-shifts the media stream in order todeterministically playback streams of different quality.• Determine the optimal user session limits of edge and origin media servers, content proxy, caching systems,and media load balancers.• Determine the total number of streams a content delivery network (CDN) can handle with consistent andreliable stream deliveryHLS Player Emulation FeaturesIP SupportEmulationInteroperabilityStream HandlingUser PlaybackFile playbackCommandConfigurationMedia NameBufferPerformanceMetricsIPv4HLS Basic Media Player functionalityAll messages sent over HTTPWowza Media Server 3.0 and other HLS compatible media delivery platformsPlayback of recorded and live streamsPLAYAny media delivered using HLS technologyDestination Server: IP:PORT, FQDN, HostnamePlay Duration: Automatic (until end), or user configurable rangeConfigurable on a per playback command basisConfigurable on a per HLS emulation basis, in seconds• Active stream count• Throughput (RX, TX)• HTTP connection and transaction level statistics• HTTP Error Response tracking (e.g. 404, 503)• Playlist Requests• Segment for Audio and Video Requests• Bit-rate Shift RequestsObjectives • Total user sessionsPage 2