Customer premise equipment (CPE) and set top box quality control test system providing scalability and performance

An analytic system for testing a plurality of units under test (UUTs), the analytic system comprising:

• a rack system comprising a plurality of video hardware units, each video hardware unit configured to couple to a corresponding different subset of the UUTs, and to receive video inputs from, and to output infra-red commands to, the corresponding different subset of the UUTs;
• and
• a master control coupled to the plurality of video hardware units;
• wherein each video hardware unit is further configured to
• execute a pre-provisioning phase, a provisioning phase including an initialization and code download stage, and a post-provisioning phase on subsets of the UUTs,
• reconfigure the infra-red commands to the UUTs and the video inputs from the UUTs in response to results of the pre-provisioning phase and the provisioning phase,
• receive via the rack system a UUT test from the master control, and
• return via the rack system a UUT test result to the master control;
• wherein the master control is configured to
• coordinate parallel testing of the pre-provisioning phase, the provisioning phase, and the post-provisioning phase of the UUTs by the video hardware units,
• operate a master RF switch to allocate an RF feed from a cable system headend to the UUTs,
• interoperate with the cable system headend,
• communicate the UUT test, and
• receive the UUT test result via a web server system.