Symmetricom Enhances its V-Factor QoE Monitoring Platform and Source Video Analyzer

Symmetricom (News - Alert), Inc., a provider precise time, synchronization and video quality management technologies for optimizing networks, announced enhancements to its Quality of Experience (QoE) portfolio of products.

 

The company is reportedly upgrading both the V-Factor Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring platform and the Q-1000 Source Video Analyzer. This is expected to offer broadcasters, operators and equipment vendors with better monitoring and troubleshooting of digital video quality besides quantifying the impact of new technologies like statistical multiplexing and advanced compression.

 

“By delivering accurate assessments of end user video quality and pinpointing specific issues in real-time, the V-Factor platform simplifies management for video operators and facilitates customer satisfaction, helping to accelerate growth of IP-based video services,” said Matthieu Chamik, product manager, QoE Solutions at Symmetricom.

 

Chamik added, “These recent enhancements keep the V-Factor platform on the cutting-edge of monitoring, well ahead of the competition, helping to eliminate service disruptions that can lead to high technical support costs and customer churn.”

 

The V-Factor platform features extended monitoring capabilities such as RFC 4445 Media Delivery (MDI (News - Alert)) support. This is a streamlined user interface which includes easy navigation, detailed reporting and alarm information and an updated Web Service integration layer. Graphical components provide channel and multiple program transport stream (MPTS) views for trouble shooting program and multiplex related issues.

 

The Q-1000 Source Video Analyzer supports the V-Factor platform upgrade and also the HD-SDI time codes (SMPTE RP188) and input profiles. This allows users to change input parameters for optimizing the MOS calculation for expert applications like digital archiving and golden eye automation tests. The Q-1000 provides target profiles which help content producers, programmers and broadcasters to define the target display for their content so that it suits three-screen convergence quality validation.

 

Symmetricom provides “Perfect Timing” to customers as it specializes in precise time and frequency products and services. The solutions from Symmetricom offer precision and reliability and efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time management.

 

The 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.

 

It employs technologies like Universal Timing Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol (NTP), IEEE 1588 (Precision Time Protocol), and also supports migration to Next Generation Networks (News - Alert) (NGN). Besides the company’s QoE video quality management solutions can accurately monitor and analyze video quality for satisfying end users.