Active ABR Network Video Monitoring

This video addresses the Diamond Award that BTR awarded to Sentry ABR at Cable Tec-Expo 2013 in Atlanta. The newest Tektronix video content monitor, the Sentry ABR, is a monitoring solution for post-fragmented adaptive bitrate (ABR) streams. Beginning with ingest at the headend, Sentry can monitor all received transport streams to identify audio and video errors in the content before they are passed to subscribers. The Sentry ABR has the computational resources required to perform complex real-time quality analysis on each H.264 stream. The granularity of the tool is what one Diamonds Judge says “sets it apart” in its field and makes it a monitor that the industry “really need(s) to manage IP video.”