Jan ColpaertDirector of TechnologyScientific-Atlanta Europe

7.6    Systems Monitoring and Management

 

 

The move to digital video processing and transmission technology offers a lot of new possibilities but does not make system configuration, maintenance and management easier. The increased complexity of the technologies often makes the systems more vulnerable. Service interruptions do not only find their origin in hardware failures but are in many cases caused by faulty configuration of the equipment.

To make things even worse, digital video transmission standards are not as well defined as their analogue counterparts, leaving much room for different interpretations of the standards. Good reception on one brand of set-top box does not imply ...

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