Date: 26th July 2010
Videotron employs Sentry digital monitoring
system to enhance viewing experience
Videotron has selected the Sentry digital content monitoring
solution, a part of Tektronix's acquisition of Mixed Signals
Inc for delivering superior viewing experience for Videotron
subscribers.
"Videotron has a well-deserved reputation in the industry
for both technical excellence and for its unswerving commitment
to quality," said Eric Conley,Vice President, Video
Network Monitoring, Tektronix. "With the addition of
Videotron, we continue to see the same rapid shift toward
the Mixed Signals family of products from Tektronix in Canada
that we have seen in the U.S., where nine of the 10 largest
operators extensively use Tektronix monitoring solutions."
Videotron chose the Tektronix Sentry solution because of
its ability to monitor their video quality and application
carousels flawlessly, identifying and diagnosing service-affecting
errors before they reach the subscriber. Sentry utilizes
technology, like its deep packet inspection, to continually
check the flow of the video programs through a network and
spot problems at the IP and MPEG layers thus leaving no
video or audio error undetected. The tru2way monitoring
capabilities of Sentry simplifies data delivery to set-top
boxes.
"We chose the Tektronix Sentry offering to ensure
continued delivery of programming with the exceptional picture
and sound quality our subscribers have come to expect from
Videotron," said Alain Boissonnault, Senior Director
of Digital Video Development for Videotron. "As we
expand our offerings with more HD programming and other
advanced services, the chances for video and audio errors
to occur grows, but with Sentry, we will be able to comprehensively
monitor our content to catch and rectify errors quickly
and with minimum fuss."
With its testing complete, Videotron will begin its initial
deployments of Sentry in its master headend in Montreal
this summer. Sentry will be used to monitor programs as
they are aggregated at the headend and prior to distribution
to markets served by the master headend. In this manner,
Videotron will be able to identify video and audio errors
that are already within the programming as it is received
at the headend, as well as errors that are introduced when
the programming is groomed, multiplexed, rate shaped and
otherwise processed before being delivered to subscribers.
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