Mixed Signals Announces New Release of Sentry Digital Content Monitoring

Mixed Signals Announces New Release of Sentry Digital Content Monitoring

- Advanced Functionality Based on Customer Feedback Designed to Manage More Complex Streams and Enhance Ease of Use -

ATLANTA, April 10 - NCTA NATIONAL SHOW - /PRNewswire/ -- Mixed Signals, Inc., the leading provider of digital content monitoring systems, today announced the latest profile release for the Sentry(TM) Digital Content Monitor. The release equips service providers with new features that further enhance its monitoring capabilities, most notably the addition of detection of video freeze and video black and individual speaker audio silence.

Building on successful deployments with three of the top five North American cable operators, Mixed Signals' latest release of Sentry includes enhancements designed to manage more complex streams, while ensuring practical modifications to the proven technology and expanding the commitment to simple and logical user interfaces. With the added functionality to enable service providers to monitor up to 30 multicast groups simultaneously in real-time, without cycling, Sentry is the most advanced monitoring technology in the market today.

"We are committed to providing the most advanced monitoring solution for the market and have worked closely with our existing customers to provide enhancements to Sentry that meets their needs and improve the television viewing experience for their subscribers," said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals. "Today, all digital television services, whether video, audio, and embedded data, are being delivered through the same core infrastructure, requiring a comprehensive proactive monitoring solution to not only ensure quality, but to identify issues before they become costly problems. The latest release of Sentry includes practical modifications that continue to expand on our commitment to simple usability and logical approaches to user interfaces."

Mixed Signals' Sentry Digital Content Monitor enables service providers to future-proof and maximize their return on investment in digital media networks by providing comprehensive intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior and integrated analysis of signal and stream data patterns, delivering actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. Its unique approach enables Mixed Signals to verify continuity and quality of digital video and audio assets as well as the operability of data-centric applications, such as the delivery of PSIP information, EPG systems, interactive television applications, captioning and parental controls.

The latest benefits of the Sentry Digital Content Monitor include:
* Group Monitoring: 30 multicast groups can be monitored in real-time
without cycling which allows continuous monitoring of the relevant parts
of your system simultaneously. This gives customers maximum value on
their monitoring investments.
* Detection of Video Freeze and Video Black while in the digital domain
provides unmatched scalability in a video quality monitoring solution
while eliminating the cost of decoding to baseband for monitoring.
* Detection of Audio Silence while in the digital domain on front left,
center, front right, surround left, surround right, and sub speakers
provides scalability in audio quality monitoring while eliminating the
cost of decoding to baseband for monitoring.
* Report Customization: Customizable multicast group labels helps
customers manage and organize large transport streams. In this way each
user can view historical reports relevant to them.

About Mixed Signals

Mixed Signals is the leading provider of digital content monitoring including digital services, transport stream, and ad insertion. Mixed Signals' innovative Sentry product provides unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services delivery in real time. Comprehensive intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior combines with an integrated analysis of signal and stream data patterns to deliver actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals Sentry enables network operators, wireless carriers, and telecommunications companies to future-proof and maximize the return on their investment in digital networks. For more information, visit http://www.mixedsignals.com/ or call 310.574.4690.

Source: Mixed Signals, Inc.

CONTACT: Charlstie Laytin of Cohn & Wolfe, +1-212-798-9830,
Charlstie_laytin@cohnwolfe.com, for Mixed Signals; or Cori Mozilo of Mixed
Signals, Inc., +1-310-574-4669, cmozilio@mixedsignals.com

Web site: http://www.mixedsignals.com/

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