Tektronix has launched comprehensive video-on-demand and live over-the-top (OTT) monitoring solutions that allow broadcasters and other video content distributors using cloud, virtual or physical networks to deliver good quality content to customers.
As new business models and key technologies like cloud workflows emerge, monitoring solutions must be adaptable enough to accommodate future services. The Tektronix OTT monitoring solution, based on the Sentry platform, provides monitoring and diagnostics anywhere along a modern media workflow, from cloud ingest through to content delivery networks. The software-based solution can be deployed with cloud, virtual private networks and data centre options.
To address the challenge of picture quality measurement and scoring, Tektronix has introduced TekMOS technology which is only available in Tektronix monitoring solutions. TekMOS provides a new fully automated single-ended mean opinion score evaluation system for picture quality. As a single-ended analysis solution, TekMOS uses machine learning techniques to evaluate picture quality and identify distortions based on a large training set of subjectively graded images. The score-based approach saves broadcasters time and money since there is no need to allocate resources for monitoring picture quality and it greatly improves viewer experience.
As opposed to an implied image quality measurement approach, TekMOS provides a real, objective measure of picture quality so that broadcasters can comparatively grade picture quality through their broadcast chain. With TekMOS on tap, broadcasters can ensure that image quality stays consistent throughout the workflow, and problem areas can be quickly identified and corrected based on the actionable scores it provides.
