Mixed Signals Sentry Content Monitoring Solution Secures Finalist Nod For IPTV World Series Awards
February 26, 2009
Award-Winning Product Recognized for Excellence and Innovation in Cable IPTV Technology
LOS ANGELES – February 26, 2009 – Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, announced that its flagship product Sentry® is a finalist in the 2009 IPTV World Series Awards. Sentry was recognized for its superior monitoring capabilities in the “Best Cable IPTV Technology” category for this year’s awards, which honor outstanding technologies for the delivery of video services and is presented in conjunction with the IPTV World Forum.
Sentry is Mixed Signals’ comprehensive monitoring solution that enables video service providers to quickly identify and resolve video quality issues that degrade viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE). Sentry accomplishes this by diving deep into the video to identify errors in the network at the IP and MPEG layers that are often undetectable using competitive solutions. Sentry has been proven in deployments with leading cable, telecom and IPTV service providers – including eight of the top 10 U.S. cable operators – who are using Sentry to better manage their networks to deliver services with optimum quality and to reduce their operational expenses.
“Being selected as a finalist for the IPTV World Series Awards is another testament to Sentry’s outstanding monitoring capabilities, especially during a time when service providers are fighting for subscribers and ensuring a superior Quality of Experience has become a competitive advantage,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals. “Making it to the final round in these awards is also recognition of our ongoing commitment to add features and capabilities to Sentry to remain the most advanced solution of its kind.”
A recent enhancement to Sentry is its unique Perceptual Scoring System – the first solution of its kind to allow video service providers to accurately determine the severity of video and audio glitches as they occur and precisely how much they impact viewers’ QoE. The system can determine which type of error is occurring, on which programs, where on the subscriber’s screen the error is taking place and its duration. This information enables operators to quickly pinpoint the source of the error instead of blindly investigating all possible causes, resulting in a dramatic reduction in operational expenses.
The IPTV World Series Awards are one of the industry’s most prestigious and celebrated award programs that recognize outstanding achievements in the global IPTV market. The winners will be announced on March 25, 2009 at the awards gala in London to coincide with the opening night of the IPTV World Forum, held in Olympia, London- March 25th-27th, 2009.
About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.
For more information visit www.mixedsignals.com or call 310.227.8620.
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