Symmetricom’s ‘Ten Video Quality Nightmares’

by Alan Harten

Symmetricom, Inc has announced that it is highlighting possible causes of digital video quality problems of advanced digital TV in its catchy new video http://qoe.symmetricom.com/video-nightmares.asp and reinforcing why perceptual video quality monitoring is a must for operators in a comprehensive whitepaper available at http://qoe.symmetricom.com/lp/Video_Over_IP/.

Designed to showcase the “Ten Video Quality Nightmares” real viewers might experience, the video encapsulates the potential technical reasons for the top 10 common video quality issues.

The white paper, entitled,” Delivering High-Quality Video over IP: Why Your Digital Video Service Must Be Monitored,” outlines solutions for operators.

Symmetricom’s V-FACTOR® Quality of Experience (QoE) platform enables cable and telecommunications operators to monitor key sources of potential video and audio impairments by providing a scalable solution that accurately assesses a consumer’s video quality experience.

Symmetricom recently announced its Q-1000 video headend analyzer, which digs deep into the actual video content to examine, in real time, the quality and integrity of source video and detect any transcoding or other encoding impairments.

V-FACTOR combines with the Q-1000 video headend analyzer and with network probes, software agents, and NOC software to form a comprehensive end-to-end solution.

The Q-1000 performs specialized functionality at the headend, while Symmetricom’s network probes and software agents monitor other network nodes to ensure accurate identification of video quality issues throughout the video delivery chain.

This provides an understanding of video quality services, enabling reduced costs through efficient diagnosis and decreased customer churn.

Symmetricom, Inc. Details

Producer of precise time and frequency products and services.

Since 1985, the company’s solutions have helped time and frequency standards, delivering precision, reliability and efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time management.

Deployed in more than 90 countries, the company’s synchronization solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated timing supplies (BITS), GPS timing receivers, time and frequency distribution systems, network time servers and ruggedized oscillators.

Symmetricom also incorporates technologies including Universal Timing Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588), and others supporting the world’s migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN).

Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide.

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