As Switched Digital Video (SDV) deployments proliferate and accelerate, it is vital that the quality of video services offered to the customer does not degrade as deployments grow larger in size. As more and more customers tune in and out of SDV channels, it is imperative that the response time and success rate of each SDV request does not suffer due to the increased load.

The SDV Client Simulator is a software tool for simulating viewer’s channel change behavior on a large scale in order to generate load on the SDV SRM, SDV Servers and other network components involved in providing SDV service. SDV Client Simulator is a tool is capable of simulating hundreds of thousands of virtual set top boxes acting as SDV clients. The tool helps identify bottlenecks in a laboratory environment before deploying in the field. The tool can also help in regression testing upgrades and bug fixes to one or more components of the SDV delivery system.

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