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	Title		: Switch Testing for Streaming Media Applications 
	Author(s)	: J. Welch, et al.
	Filename	: draft-welch-streaming-test-00.txt
	Pages		: 22
	Date		: 2006-6-14

This memo defines a set of supplementary tests for networking 
interconnection devices (switches) that can be used to evaluate and 
compare their performance when used with streaming media.  The Media 
Delivery Index (MDI) [i3] measurement is employed as a convenient 
stream quality indicator of input and output streams to indicate 
cumulative stream jitter and packet loss under test load conditions.  
Typical operating profiles are defined to focus test efforts on 
common switch applications for unidirectional streaming media to 
reduce the amount of testing required and to encourage device and 
system evaluation in advance of deployment through use of a set of 
reference tests.  

The supplementary tests defined in this memo are intended for         Information only. 

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