Assuring Multi-Screen Video Quality

With the unveiling of the TV Everywhere partnership between Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Inc. in June 2009, the multi-screen video era formally began. Two prominent service and content providers promised to take high-quality TV programming far beyond the conventional home TV set to a vast array of other video displays, such as personal computers, laptops, notebooks, video game consoles, iPads, mobile phones, and other portable devices.

The embrace of this "three screen strategy" highlights the growing importance of digital video quality. These challenges can be overcome with an intensified end-to-end QoS+QoE network monitoring approach, from headend to playback device while making sure that all of the points along the way are well covered.