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August 10th, 2009

Testing Those STBs Part Of S3's Upcoming Demo (SatBroadcasting)


S3 will be demo'ing its StormTest product to more than 200 senior executives in the North American cable industry at the upcoming CableLabs® Summer Conference in Colorado from August 9th-11th.

S3's StormTest diagram StormTest is an intelligent, automated STB test and diagnostics solution which removes the need for time-consuming, expensive and error-prone manual testing and replaces it with a more accurate and cost-effective alternative. Current clients include BSkyB and Irdeto, among others. S3 has in-depth experience in delivering system integration management, design and consultancy services to the Digital TV industry and will be showcasing its StormTest solution at the CableLabs summer conference. In addition to being able to provide all of the features you would expect to see in such a testing product, such as video analysis, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and motion detection, StormTest offers cable operators configurable, repeatable and reliable testing, a universal test infrastructure, support for black-box and white-box testing and a single platform that meets different test case needs from development right through to legacy set-top box maintenance and repair. S3 is a multinational technology organization with a 15-year track record of providing leading products, services and IP to global cable, satellite and IPTV operators, STB manufacturers, middleware vendors, conditional access vendors and semiconductor companies.