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ATIS Webinar:
DRM Impact on IPTV Service Quality
October 18, 1 pm ET. Listen
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IPTV QoS Task Force
AND the IIF (IPTV Interoperability Forum)
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Solutions > V-Factor for Cable
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V-Factor is a unique perceptual video quality management solution designed to deliver deep understanding of video service quality, in real-time
Symmetricom has enhanced its V-Factor QoE Platform for use in cable networks. V-Factor monitors video quality from content, headend, transport network, to the set-top. Enabling the monitoring of all sources of potential video and audio impairments - not just the network – V-Factor is a scalable solution which delivers accurate assessments of the consumer’s video quality experience, in real time.
V-Factor for Cable consists of the following components:
- Headend Analyzers (Q-1000): These high performance analyzers examine, in real time, the quality & integrity of source video and detect transcoding and encoding impairments. No and full reference modes ensure most flexible deployment at highest possible accuracy and effectiveness.
- Network Probes (Q-Probe): Hardware probes collect and report network performance metrics and content metrics and correlate all metrics directly to achieve perceptual video quality assessments.
- Software Agents (Q-Agent): Embedded in set-top-box, media players and other platforms, these lightweight components enable real time video monitoring from within the customer premise.
- Q-Advisor: This NOC software solution aggregates quality information from across the network to provide end-to-end correlation, status monitoring, and problem reporting (via a built-in, web-based GUI or simple integration into an existing OSS).
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V-Factor for Cable
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V-Factor for Cable Highlights
- Perceptual Video Quality: Understand what your customers see with Symmetricom’s unique approach for video quality Monitoring
- Accurate QoE Assessments Get a true picture of your video service quality – one you can finally trust
- Comprehensive End-to-End Solution Monitor the entire network with a single, scalable solution
- Highly Adaptable Platform Flexible to meet wide range of network applications and requirements
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V-Factor: Understand your Video Quality
- Understand the service: V-Factor tells you if there is an issue and whether or not it matters to end-users
- Understand the problem: V-Factor reports exactly what the end-users see (blockiness, blur, freeze frame, etc)
and pinpoints exact cause.
- Understand the solution: With its fine-grained metrics, V-Factor enables operators to determine impairment source readily and without guesswork.
Encrypted Solution: End-End Correlation Function
A significant challenge with end-end QoE monitoring in a cable environment is determining what is happening within the IP network itself—where content is generally encrypted. V-Factor does deep content analysis on unencrypted streams at network ingress, and correlating this information with IP header analysis performed in the encrypted part of the IP network, determines how network impairments impact actual video content. This is a key part of the Symmetricom offering.
Solution Benefits:
Understand your Video Quality Accuracy and flexibility in quality monitoring are essential to effectively manage and grow an Internet video business. Key benefits of deploying V-Factor in the network include:
- Accelerated deployments, increased growth
- Lower support costs - shorter time to fix, fewer truck rolls
- Eliminate customer calls through early problem identification
- Increased customer satisfaction, reduced churn, new SLAs
- Differentiated service offering, powerful service marketing
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