AVEQ's tech posts.

Why Bandwidth Tells You Nothing About Video Streaming Performance

By AVEQ Team on June 24, 2026

Across four fixed-line networks, a faster download speed did not mean faster video startup. Here is why bandwidth tells you little about the streaming experience your subscribers actually get.

P.1204.1 vs. PEVQ-S: Comparing Two Approaches to Video Quality Monitoring

By AVEQ Team on April 8, 2026

A factual comparison of our P.1204.1 video quality model and PEVQ-S — what each one needs, what content it covers, and where each fits in modern OTT monitoring.

When Do Users Perceive Stalling in Video Streaming?

By AVEQ Team on March 20, 2026

The minimum detectable stalling duration in video streaming is between approximately 80 and 200 milliseconds, for most viewers. We explore the psychophysical evidence and what it means for engineering thresholds.

What AT&T's AMVOTS Tells Us About the State of Video QoE Measurement

By AVEQ Team on March 17, 2026

AT&T recently published a paper on AMVOTS, their Automated Mobile Video Objective Testing System, built in collaboration with Ericsson. We take a closer look at what it means for the industry and how it compares to standardized QoE approaches.

The OSI Model in Practice: How Surfmeter Measures the End-User Layer

By AVEQ Team on February 15, 2026

Discover why the "invisible" Layer 8 is the key to true Quality of Experience (QoE) and how Surfmeter bridges the gap between network metrics and actual user satisfaction.

New Research: ITU-T P.1203 Validated on Real-World Satellite Streaming Data

By AVEQ Team on November 29, 2025

We’re pleased to share new research that has been published in IEEE Access. The findings validate the accuracy of QoE prediction models such as ITU-T Rec. P.1203 against real-world streaming conditions. The peer-reviewed paper, titled “Satellite Streaming Video QoE Prediction: A Real-World Subjective Database and Network-Level Prediction Models,” represents a collaboration between researchers at the…

VideoAnalyzer — AVEQ’s High-Performance C++ Toolkit for No-Reference Video Metrics

By AVEQ Team on September 2, 2025

A deep dive into AVEQ’s VideoAnalyzer, a high-performance C++ toolkit for no-reference video metrics. Learn how it instantly finds artifacts like blockiness, freezes, and blur at the source.

Stop Believing Ping Tests Are Sufficient: Why ping tests are no longer enough for a great QoE

By AVEQ Team on August 18, 2025

Are you providing Internet services, and  your customers complain about buffering screens and broken movie nights? Are you perhaps telling them that the problem might be their local WiFi, because in your own network monitoring tools, ping tests show that the video CDN was available within a few milliseconds? Of course, ping tests are, and…

What does a MOS of x mean…? Interpreting the MOS in real-world terms

By AVEQ Team on June 24, 2025

Decode Mean Opinion Score (MOS) to understand network performance and enhance customer experience. Learn how to interpret MOS for video, web, and conferencing quality.

Measuring CDN Performance with Surfmeter’s New CDN Analysis Tool

By AVEQ Team on June 9, 2025

Discover how AVEQ’s CDN Analysis tool helps ISPs and network operators diagnose slow web page loading, pinpoint sluggish CDNs, improve user experience, and proactively enhance web QoE

AVEQ Opens Up: Surfmeter Documentation Now Public

By AVEQ Team on February 26, 2025

Our comprehensive documentation covers all aspects of the Surfmeter ecosystem.

Modernizing Our Video Analytics Stack: From Rails to Node.js

By AVEQ Team on January 13, 2025

We recently completed a significant migration of our Surfmeter Client Analytics backend from Ruby on Rails and Postgres to a modern Node.js-based architecture based on Express and BullMQ. Here’s how we approached this migration and what we learned along the way. We hope this blog post will be useful to others who are considering a…

How Does WiFi Energy Use Affect Streaming Quality?

By AVEQ Team on November 20, 2024

If you are using somewhat modern WiFi equipment, you will probably have an option to turn on an “eco” mode. These settings promise to save power at the expense of network speed. But how much does that affect the actual speed and application performance? Luckily, we have our Surfmeter probes to find out. Turns out…

P.1203 Extended: Our Ultimate Video Quality Measurement Model

By AVEQ Team on July 29, 2024

In this blog post we explain ITU-T P.1203, a state-of-the-art video quality measurement model, and our improved variant, which we call P.1203 Extended.

Surfmeter for iOS — Video Measurement Support for Apple Devices

By AVEQ Team on June 24, 2024

Discover AVEQ's latest update as Surfmeter now supports AVPlayer for iOS 15 and higher. Enhance your video streaming quality with powerful analytics.

The “Evolution” of the Netflix ISP Speed Index

By AVEQ Team on June 7, 2024

If you head to https://ispspeedindex.netflix.net/ you can see Netflix listing all ISPs and their speeds — broken down by country. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth visiting the page for your country. This article first appeared on LinkedIn. From my time working at a Tier 1 telco, I distinctly remember the Netflix ISP…

Video Quality Models and Measurements — An Overview

By AVEQ Team on May 2, 2024

Learn about video quality models, including subjective and objective assessment methods. Discover how to effectively measure and enhance video quality to boost user experience.

Enhancing Video Stream Quality Measurement: Active Test Clients vs. Network Layer Analysis

By AVEQ Team on October 4, 2023

Explore video stream quality measurement methods: active test clients vs. network layer analysis. Learn how to ensure top-notch streaming experiences in the age of encryption.

Don’t Let Churn Cost You: How Streaming Providers and ISPs can Boost Revenue with QoE

By AVEQ Team on April 26, 2023

Nobody likes to lose customers. But to prevent that from happening, you have to know what drives churn, and how to avoid it.

QoE and SLAs: How to optimize the right metrics

By AVEQ Team on April 5, 2023

If you provide an Internet-based service, it is crucial to ensure a high level of availability and quality for your users. Providers have always used Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to define criteria for uptime, latency, and other aspects of quality that can be measured from an application or network perspective. However, as services become more…

Now Shipping: Google Lighthouse Web Metrics

By AVEQ Team on March 17, 2023

There was a time when it was enough to wait for a “load” event to know that a web page was loading. This is no longer the case. As websites become more complex — through media assets or interactive elements — it’s no longer easy to determine the user experience for a browsing session. As…

Mobile Video Quality Measurements with Surfmeter

By AVEQ Team on January 26, 2023

While video streaming traffic is growing globally, the amount of time spent watching video on mobile devices and smart TVs is increasing year on year, according to various studies. Desktop usage remains stagnant. To understand the quality of video streaming on mobile devices, we need a dedicated solution that gives us detailed insight into the…

New Surfmeter Demo Video — Quality Measurements in Docker

By AVEQ Team on January 25, 2023

Are you looking for a comprehensive video quality measurement software that helps you ensure quality for your customers? Look no further – AVEQ’s Surfmeter solution is here! In this demo video, we will show you how easy it is to use Surfmeter to measure video quality, web performance, speed tests, and other kinds of network…

How LambdaTest makes it easy to run Browser Automation

By AVEQ Team on November 15, 2022

At AVEQ we’re measuring the performance and quality of web pages, including those that play video. It’s in the nature of those pages that they constantly change — be it minor CSS updates or complete overhauls. To ensure that our measurement solutions keep working as intended, we perform regular tests on those websites to see if…

Adventures in Building Multi-Arch Docker Images with Chrome/Chromium

By AVEQ Team on October 25, 2022

Docker is great – run the same code on all machines, no setup needed. So they say. But once you go beyond simple Dockerfiles, things start to change. We recently had the, uhm, pleasure of trying to dockerize Chrome, ideally with support for DRM content. We thought it would be easy — grab the latest…

Network Performance Tests made easy with our QoS Dashboard

By AVEQ Team on August 3, 2022

If you are operating a network or serving your traffic over different networks, ensuring performance and stability is likely one of your most important goals. Our Surfmeter Analytics Dashboard allows you to set up various visualizations of network and service performance, with possibilities to compare across different networks, regions, devices, or services. In our previous…

Compare your Services — with our QoE Comparison Dashboard

By AVEQ Team on July 14, 2022

Set up our dashboard for different video services, ISPs, content streams and devices — then start monitoring. Our analytics suite will give all important KPIs.

Video Quality Models from ITU-T — An Overview

By AVEQ Team on February 17, 2022

Originally recorded for a hybrid conference, we'd like to share this topic. Our CEO Werner Robitza has recorded a short summary about the current standardization efforts at ITU-T for monitoring HTTP adaptive streaming quality. These include the P.1203 and P.1204 recommendation series …

Cloud Gaming QoE measurements on 5G and DSL — how fast is good enough?

By AVEQ Team on February 16, 2022

If you’ve followed tech news in the past years, you will have probably noticed cloud gaming as one of the new and emerging trends. With platforms like GeForce Now (NVIDIA), Stadia (from Google), or PlayStation Now (from Sony), you can access gaming content without having to own expensive gaming equipment. The gaming providers simply send…

How to do browser automation for videos? Insights from the developer

By AVEQ Team on February 1, 2022

(This post is part 2 of a small series on our development work.) If you read our previous post, it should have become clear that it’s not trivial to build automation tests involving video. As we indicated in the article, one of the main issues developers normally stumble upon is gathering the current playout state…

Now arriving in your Test Suite: Automation Testing for Video Playback

By AVEQ Team on January 13, 2022

With zero configuration needed, all you need to do is add our Surfmeter Test Automation plugin to your Selenium-based tests.

Measuring the Quality of Cloud Gaming

By AVEQ Team on September 21, 2021

Cloud gaming one of the latest trends in the entertainment industry — customers can gain access to a plethora of game content without needing to buy specialized hardware. Services like NVIDIA’s GeForce Now, Google’s Stadia or Sony’s PlayStation Now render the game at the server side and simply transmit a video stream to the end…

How to measure your video platform’s Quality of Experience?

By AVEQ Team on August 31, 2021

In order to understand how the consumers experience their streams, we need to measure the QoE. And how to do that, is what we explain. Read on!

Does HD content always mean good quality?

By AVEQ Team on August 18, 2021

When operators say they deliver good quality, they mostly think about the resolution with which a video is encoded. End users also often only think about “HD” indicators. This is right to some degree. Nevertheless, the quality can depend on many more factors.

How to measure Video QoS and QoE with Surfmeter

By AVEQ Team on November 27, 2020

Almost everyone knows the most important Key Performance Indicators for video streaming: the time it takes for the video to start, and whether there are any interruptions during playback. You also typically want to know the resolutions that your client receives. However, there are many more indicators that are relevant for determining the overall quality…