Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM) today 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.
| WHO: | Â | Symmetricom |
| WHAT: | Video on "Ten Video Quality Nightmares" | |
| Whitepaper entitled, "Delivering High-Quality Video over IP: Why Your Digital Video Service Must be Monitored" | ||
| WHERE: | www.symmetricom.com | |
| WHEN: | Video and Whitepaper Available Now | |
| WHY: | To clarify possible causes of digital video quality problems and to reinforce solutions |
"Faced with discerning customers when it comes to having good video quality, operators are looking for a simple solution to identify video quality impairments and their possible causes," said Symmetricom's VP-Marketing Joyce Kim. "Today's high-bandwidth video, such as HD programming, VOD and SDV, makes providing high-quality video more complex. Constant content manipulation from the content owner down to the viewer adds corruption risk "” such as encoding/transcoding, digital ad-insertion, splicing and statistical multiplexing."
"With the wide range of complex video equipment, and aggressive compression goals to ensure lowest bandwidth and network impacts, operators face challenges to ensure video service quality meets the growing customer quality expectations or face high operations costs, high customer churn and slower service deployment. The video and whitepaper are designed to clarify the issues and offer solutions," Kim explained.
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.
About Symmetricom, Inc.
As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom provides "Perfect Timing" to customers around the world. Since 1985, the company's solutions have helped define the world's 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. For more information, visit www.symmetricom.com.
