Symmetricom QoE Assurance Division's Principal Technologist Featured Speaker at SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies® 2008
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Dr. Stefan Winkler to Speak on Quality of Experience (QoE) - An Important Measure of Success for IP-Based Video Services
SAN JOSE, Calif. - January 7, 2008 - Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), today announced that Dr. Stefan Winkler, principal technologist for Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division, is speaking at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE)'s Conference on Emerging Technologies® (ET) in Los Angeles. Taking place on January 14-16, 2008, SCTE's ET Conference brings together cable and telecommunication industry leaders to discuss important issues impacting the future of the industry.
Dr. Winkler is speaking on a panel entitled, "Rapid Application Delivery and Service Quality Management" which is composed of executives from Cable Labs, Time Warner Cable and others who will tackle some of the important challenges the industry faces. The panel will discuss subscriber policy management, on-boarding of new applications, measuring and managing quality of experience (QoE), and how standards and new architectures will address these needs in the coming years. Dr. Winkler will specifically address the importance of QoE as a critical measure of success for IP-based video services.
WHO: Dr. Stefan Winkler, Principal Technologist, Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division
WHAT: Speaking on panel, "Rapid Application Delivery and Service Quality Management" at SCTE's Emerging Technologies Conference
WHEN: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
404 S. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90071
One of the world's top experts in digital media quality, Dr. Winkler serves as a principal technologist at Symmetricom. He was formerly chief scientist and co-founder of Genista Corporation, a provider of quality assurance solutions for IPTV and mobile media. He has also held assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, German Aerospace and Andersen Consulting. Dr. Winkler has published more than 40 papers on perceptual quality measurement and is the author of the book, "Digital Video Quality." He has also been a member and contributor of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) since its founding in 1997. Dr. Winkler holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria and a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division provides perceptual video quality monitoring and diagnostic solutions for cable operators, telcos and other CSPs to deliver mission- critical QoE solutions for IP-based switched digital video services. For more information, visit qoe.symmetricom.com.
About Symmetricom, Inc.
As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom provides "Perfect Timing" to customers around the world. Since 1985, the company's solutions have helped define the world's time and frequency standards, delivering precision, reliability and efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time management. Deployed in more than 90 countries, the company's synchronization solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated timing supplies (BITS), GPS timing receivers, time and frequency distribution systems, network time servers and ruggedized oscillators. Symmetricom also incorporates technologies including Universal Timing Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588), and others supporting the world's migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.symmetricom.com.
About SCTE
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers is a non-profit professional organization committed to advancing the careers of cable telecommunications professionals and serving the industry through excellence in professional development, information and standards. SCTE currently has more than 14,000 members from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide and offers a variety of programs and services for the industry's educational benefit. SCTE has 68 chapters and meeting groups and has technically certified more than 3,000 employees of the cable telecommunications industry. SCTE is an ANSI-accredited standards development organization. Visit SCTE online at www.scte.org.
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