TI partners with Network Physics

BANGALORE: Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today tied up with Network Physics, real-time application performance company to deliver optimized end-user experiences for VoIP and IPTV services.

Designed around TI’s PIQUA quality management system, the partnership would further help service providers and enterprise IT managers deliver real-time visibility into performance related problems and provide automated corrective actions that can be deployed to mitigate some of the challenges with delivering IP-based services.

The integration of PIQUA software with the NetSensory Solution Insight for VoIP 2.0 from Network Physics is done via standard protocols such as RTCP-XR by communicating call quality metrics, including TI RTCP-XR extensions for reporting echo quality metrics, TI said in a statement.

"Successfully delivering VoIP and IPTV requires deep, real-time analysis of underlying network conditions that can potentially impair the delivery of these services," said Kenny Frerichs, president and CEO at Network Physics.

"The whole point of deploying VoIP is to run voice across the network just like any other application, but voice and network management tools aren’t always up to the task. The marrying of TI’s PIQUA technology and the NetSensory Solution Insight for VoIP seizes the full advantage of the PIQUA system by creating a solution that optimizes services based on true end-user experiences and provides exceptional insight into application performance,” he added.

"TI’s PIQUA system is a standards-based, embedded capability in IP endpoints, including CPE devices and access and infrastructure media gateways, which gathers and reports real-time operational and experiential data from equipment used to deliver services such as VoIP and IPTV," said Debbie Greenstreet, director of service provider strategic marketing, Texas Instruments.

"Working with Network Physics, our PIQUA system automates the process of gathering IP endpoint performance metrics and converts this data into real-time actionable information, improving the delivery of IP services. The results of our alliance will include improved user experience and a reduction in overall network operating costs," he added.