Symmetricom announces the company will be presenting a free TechThink Webinar on “Digital Rights Management and its Impact on IPTV Service Quality: Security and its Impact on Quality of Experience Monitoring,” in conjunction with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, October 18, 2007, 1:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT. This ATIS TechThink Webinar is the second in a series of three ATIS Webinars focusing on IPTV and will examine issues surrounding deploying DRM technology and how to measure its impact on Quality of Experience from source content to customer premises equipment.

WHO: Moderator

John F. Bernhards, Vice President, Marketing & Public Relations at ATIS

Featured Speakers

Dr. Stefan Winkler, Principal Technologist at Symmetricom’s QoE Assurance Division

Bob Kulakowski, Chief Technology Officer at Verimatrix, Inc.

WHAT: ATIS TechThink Webinar presented by Symmetricom and ATIS, “Digital Rights Management (DRM) and its Impact on IPTV Service Quality: Security and its Impact on Quality of Experience Monitoring”

WHEN: Thursday, October 18, 2007

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PDT

WHERE: To register for this webinar, or for additional information, visit: http://qoe.symmetricom.com/atis2.

IPTV has introduced a much anticipated new era in next generation video services. Content owners, publishers and distributors are justifiably concerned that their material be protected from unauthorized users and illegal distribution. As defined by ATIS’ IPTV DRM Interoperability Requirements, Digital Rights Management is “a collection of technologies that technically enable the definition of and the enforcement of secure content transportation as well as secure content licensing.” But unchecked, content protection requirements can have an impact on video quality delivered to the viewer. This ATIS Webinar will examine issues surrounding deploying DRM technology and how to measure its impact on QoE end-to-end.

The TechThink Webinar presentation will include:

• IPTV, DRM and QoE requirements from a network solutions provider perspective
• Developing standards for DRM – ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum

One of the world’s top experts in digital media quality, Dr. Winkler 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.

The first Webinar in the series entitled “An IPTV Reference Architecture: The First Step in Moving Toward New Services” was held on Tuesday, May 8, 2007. The archive is available at: http://qoe.symmetricom.com/news/webcasts.asp.