Spirent Umetrix® Video | HD Streaming

Assuring Superior Quality of Experience

for Streaming Video Services

Spirent Umetrix® Video | HD Streaming

Assuring Superior Quality of Experience for Streaming Video Services

Mobile is Now a Video Distribution Business

Mobile data demand is exponentially growing, with video as the main driver. According to Cisco’s Visual Networking

Index, 78% of the world’s mobile data trafc will be video by 2021.

The ecosystem for video content delivery is

manufacturers are actively creating new video devices and services

• Streaming service providers need to deliver apps that perform across a wide variety of devices and carrier

networks

Video delivery is complicated, and as organizations

implement their video strategies, there are a myriad

of challenges and questions that arise. These

questions, and many others, can be answered through

comprehensive testing methods, but there are several

different ways to measure video performance. Rather

than analyzing packets or frames for diagnostic

Spirent has developed a leading-edge methodology

to evaluate video performance without the need for

a reference source. The Umetrix® Video solution can

“view pixels like a person” and score QoE according to

a Video Mean Opinion Score (VMOS), as if hundreds

of human viewers were watching and rating overall

Umetrix Video supports any video service (e.g., mobile, home, 5G applications), analyzes the video content itself to

detect artifacts, and performs scoring without prior view of the original video. This analysis is via Spirent’s content-

trained non-reference algorithm, which uses machine learning on thousands of sample videos to understand the