Keysight's Umetrix Monitors User Experience Across 5G, LTE, and Fiber Networks
Keysight's Umetrix product family offers user experience monitoring for video, voice, and gaming services across 5G, LTE, and fiber networks. It utilizes real, unmodified devices and standards-based algorithms like ITU-T P.1204 to help service providers validate launch readiness and benchmark performance. This solution enables consistent methodology in both lab and live network environments.
Key Takeaways
- Keysight's Umetrix product family monitors user experience for video, voice, and gaming services.
- Umetrix operates across 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi, cable, and fiber networks, using real, unmodified devices.
- It employs standards-based QoE scoring algorithms, including ITU-T P.1204, ITU-T G.1072, and POLQA.
- The system supports consistent test methodologies between lab and live network environments.
- Umetrix measures data throughput, latency, voice quality, video QoE, and mobile gaming experience on iOS, Android, and Windows devices.
Why It Matters
As 5G and fiber networks become primary delivery mechanisms for streaming content, device makers and service providers face increased pressure to ensure quality. Keysight's Umetrix offers a unified toolset, reducing the complexity of testing and validation across diverse network types and device ecosystems. This consistency helps to identify and resolve performance issues more efficiently, directly impacting subscriber satisfaction and churn. Operators will now have more precise data to benchmark services and validate network upgrades, making 'quality of experience' less subjective. The next metric to watch will be specific operator adoption rates and how Umetrix data influences network and service investment decisions.
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