Tektronix Video Monitoring Solutions Score Big In BGR Diamond Technology Reviews

The Broadband Gear Report’s Diamond Technology Reviews, launched in 2005, is an unbiased technology review program utilizing a distinguished panel of engineering executives from major U.S. cable television operators to judge each submission.

“That two of our quality of experience (QoE) solutions have received such high rankings shows that industry experts recognize Tektronix as a true leader in enabling cable operators to deliver their programming services with optimal quality, free from video and audio errors that can affect subscribers’ viewing experience,” said Eric Conley, vice president, Video Network Monitoring, Tektronix. “Tektronix offers the industry’s largest and most proven portfolio of QoE products, enabling video service providers to catch, diagnose and repair video and audio errors by comprehensively monitoring their programming at all critical network locations, from ingest through the network edge just before it is delivered to the home.”

The award-winning Sentry is the industry’s premier content monitoring solution, proven in deployments with nine of the top 10 U.S. cable operators and three of the top five Canadian operators. This year, the Diamond Technology Reviews panel recognized Sentry for its new Enhanced TV Binary Interchange (EBIF) monitoring capability, part of Tektronix’ source-to-edge solution which service providers are rapidly rolling out. As operators expand deployment of EBIF-based interactive ads and other applications, the need grows for comprehensive monitoring to ensure that these applications are working properly.

The new VQS1000 Video Quality software from Tektronix can be combined with any of the company’s digital TV network analyzers and monitors to enable the real-time assessment of video impairments in MPEG-2 or H.264 encoded content, including stuck, black, blockiness as well as compression artifacts. The Tektronix VQS1000 Video Quality software significantly improves the reliability and accuracy of artifact measurement by performing a full decode on the video stream. The full decode allows operators to determine if the source of a problem is in the content source (for example, over-compression) or in network distribution.