Located in the NOC, Q-Advisor receives measurements from probes located at various points of the video distribution chain, from the headend down to the customer premise, providing an unparalleled, end-to-end view of the network. New reporting capabilities include a per-channel, time-based view of quality levels as well as a top-10 video service impairments report. These features help prioritize troubleshooting actions, saving time in addressing and resolving video quality impairments. Additionally, enhanced graphical elements enable technicians to rapidly identify trends and patterns in reported IP distribution issues.

"Competition is raging among video service providers," commented Kevin Hsu, vice president of product marketing at Symmetricom. "Q-Advisor provides a critical tool to ensure better video quality at the source where it can be controlled, while at the same time, reducing the monitoring equipment footprint and power usage."

The company also announced an enhanced, high-density platform for the Q-1200 Headend Analyzer, extending scalability for video content monitoring and enabling operators to save valuable rack space and power consumption. An automated, efficient solution for monitoring video content in the headend, the Q-1200 examines the quality and integrity of source video and detects transcoding and encoding impairments. The Q-1200 now monitors more than double the number of channels (8HD/32SD – MPEG-2) in the same rack mounted footprint (2U) with equivalent power consumption.

Symmetricom offers one of the most comprehensive, unprecedented end-to-end monitoring solutions in the industry with headend analyzers, network probes and advanced video management and reporting software.
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Availability

The updated Q-Advisor and enhanced, high-density platform for the Q-1200 will be available in November.

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For more information on Q-Advisor, visit: http://www.symmetricom.com/products/qoe-assurance/v-factor/Management-Software-Q-Advisor/.

For more information on the Q-1200 Headend Analyzer, visit: http://www.symmetricom.com/products/qoe-assurance/v-factor/Analyzers-Probes/.

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), IEEE 1588 (Precision Time Protocol), and others supporting the world's migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom's QoE video quality management solutions provide the tools necessary to accurately monitor and analyze video quality and bring higher satisfaction levels to the end user. Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide.

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