Symmetricom Announces IPTV Probe for Monitoring Triple Play QoS

Symmetricom Inc. has come out with a new probe, the Q-400 IPTV Probe, that delivers end-to-end network performance visibility and quality assurance for service providers offering triple-play services, including IPTV and VoIP.

It enables QoS assurance for the core network and quality of experience (QoE) using Symmetricom’s V-Factor to provide visibility to IPTV service quality just as a user is experiencing it in real time.

“For IPTV, three closely related factors are essential: the quality of video itself, its error-free delivery over a network, and the quality of experience encountered by the consumer,” said Steven Hawley, senior IPTV analyst for Multimedia Research Group Inc. “Operators that perform rigorous test and measurement, to objective benchmarks – for both live and on-demand content – have the greatest likelihood to capture new subscribers and keep them loyal.”

The new Q-400 monitors up to 400 SD or HD H264 IPTV streams and up to 10,000 VoIP streams in parallel in full passive mode. Scoring of streams is presented with the familiar Mean Opinion Score (MOS) for VoIP (ITU G107 Model) and for IPTV in the V-Factor MOS score, similar to the MPQM Model.

The new IPTV probe will be demonstrated at NXTcomm in Booth 1156.

Symmetricom Inc. www.symmetricom.com

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