As a follow-up to the IPTV Video Quality report published by MRG earlier in 2007, this report provides an in-depth analysis of the emerging IPTV TM&M category of technologies and products.

This report defines and explains this important category, the market for these solutions, identifies market drivers and inhibitors, provides insights about regional and global markets and identifies trends in the category.

The report also reviews IPTV architectures and technical requirements, classifies the types of TM&M solutions, provides taxonomy of the solutions, identifies suppliers and identifies emerging standards. It describes how Operators of various sizes are implementing, using and benefiting from IPTV TM&M, and recommends best practices.

Table 1-3 shows a sample of Vendors' TM&M solutions, based on pre-deployment and post-deployment functions. It also illustrates the kind of VQ, QoS and QoE solutions provided by a sample of the vendors profiled in this report. Although it is a partial listing of the suppliers in the TM&M category, it does represent those which are the most active in IPTV at the time of this report. (The types of testing done by these solutions maps to the categories listed in Table 1-1.) In total, this report identifies 28 different IPTV TM&M suppliers.

This report is part of the IPTV Tracking Service published by the Multimedia Research Group, Inc.