NEW REPORT TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF SERVICE.

Modem User News, July, 2009

Quality of Service on IPTV networks, for both operators and their customers worldwide, can now be greatly improved thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of experts at the Broadband Forum.

The approval and release of "Splitter Testing" Technical Report 127 (TR-127) creates - for the first time - the opportunity for network operators and independent test labs to carry out a system level test across four key IPTV network elements; the DSLAM, the CPE modem, the Central Office Splitter and the CPE Splitter. Testing splitters as part of a complete system assures the new TR-127 compliant splitters will prevent disturbance of the video signal by a telephone signal on the same line.

"Video signal interruption by on-hook, off-hook telephone usage has...

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