Symmetricom Debuts New V-Factor Q-1200 Video Monitoring Solution at TelcoTV 2008

  
    
  
  
    
      Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and 
      frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the 
      management of next generation networks, today announced the debut of its 
      new V-Factor® Q-1200 Headend Analyzer, an 
      automated, efficient and scalable solution for monitoring video content 
      in the headend, at TelcoTV 2008 on November 11–13, 
      2008 in Orange County, Calif. This is the first, live demonstration of 
      the Q-1200, which enhances Symmetricom's V-Factor Quality of Experience 
      (QoE) end-to-end monitoring platform with content validation. The 
      headend is of particular importance for assuring video quality as 
      degradations in the headend have the highest potential for impacting the 
      most number of viewers.
    
    
      “The competition between telcos, cable and 
      satellite service providers to gain or preserve market position is 
      driving the need for higher quality content with better service 
      availability,” commented Gurdip Jande, senior 
      vice president of marketing for Symmetricom. “By 
      validating content at the source through analyzing video impairments, 
      the Q-1200 helps the entire digital video distribution chain manage 
      service quality, ultimately reducing provider operating costs as well as 
      customer churn. For content owners and producers, validating content at 
      the source provides them the ability to enforce quality SLAs and control 
      their brand.”
    
    
      In addition, TelcoTV will highlight the need for QoE solutions with a 
      special panel of leading experts, including Matthieu Chamik, product 
      manager, QoE Solutions at Symmetricom. The panel is entitled, “Quality 
      of Service: The Service Provider Trump Card,” 
      and takes place on Thursday, November 13, 2008, 1:00 – 
      2:00 p.m. PST. These industry leaders will discuss the importance of 
      service level quality, including service providers and all players 
      collaborating toward delivering a quality experience that consumers will 
      appreciate.
    
    
      Symmetricom also announced today that HP has expanded its integration of 
      Symmetricom products to the new Q-1200, now being integrated into the HP 
      Next Generation OSS Service Assurance platform. A comprehensive business 
      service and application management solution, BAC monitors the health of 
      business services and applications from the consumer’s 
      point of view.
    
    
      The Q-1200 is vital to delivering high quality video, critical to any 
      successful IP-based video offering. As part of Symmetricom's V-Factor 
      Quality of Experience (QoE) platform, the Q-1200:
    
    
      
        Performs comprehensive audio/video analysis on 100 video streams 
        simultaneously and content analysis on up to 16 uncompressed video 
        channels
      
      
        Uniquely and accurately identifies video impairments from basic 
        service issues to sophisticated video artifacts such as channel audio 
        and/or video dropout, black screen, blocky or frozen video
      
      
        Performs specialized functionality at the headend helping to eliminate 
        garbage-in-garbage-out video degradation and quality issues that can 
        affect millions of viewers
      
      
        Aids operators in the ability to accurately correlate video quality 
        impairments with network impairments as results are managed through 
        the central element management system that also aggregates results 
        from the other V-Factor Quality of Experience (QoE) products
      
      
        Uses a sophisticated model of the human vision system specifically 
        designed to measure video quality in real time just as a real viewer 
        perceives the quality to be
      
    
    
      TelcoTV is the telecom industry’s premier 
      event for exploring a comprehensive entertainment convergence strategy. 
      Visit Symmetricom at booth #201. For more information, visit: http://www.telcotvonline.com.
    
    
      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.
    
    
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