
6 March, 2019
Events
Another great IBC is over!
It was a pleasure meeting you and all industry colleagues at IBC! The event resulted in many exciting discussions around video service quality and customer experience. Apart from all great meetings, one highlight was of course the CSI Award for Best monitoring or network management solution that we received for our remote PHY solution.
These were some of our IBC2019 highlights:
Exhibitor preview Agama Technologies IBC2019 preview_short version
Agama Technolgies IBC 2019 exhibitor preview
Agama 360 Analytics for IPTV and head-end At IBC we will showcase our award-winning solution Agama 360 Analytics. Within its unique view, every stream flow is correlated and visualized across the entire delivery chain in real-time with in-depth KPIs and metrics; from encoding to delivery to STBs, apps and devices - across technologies. The solution enables a deepened customer understanding and makes it easier than ever before to find the root cause of a problem in complex delivery chains.
Read more about Agama 360 Analytics.
ASSURING SCTE 35 TARGETED ADVERTISING AND DIGITAL PROGRAM INSERTION SIGNALING Ad insert requires time critical signaling for ads to be correctly played to subscribers. Errors on the frame level can cause both visual artifacts and lost ad impressions causing loss of revenue and lowering customer experience. The Agama ad insertion assurance offering includes the monitoring, validation and visibility needed to assure ad insert services for both multicast and OTT and to ensure an excellent customer experience.
We are extending our end-to-end solution with SDI support We are extending our end-to-end assurance and analytics solution with SDI support, making it possible to assure the quality of video streams even earlier in the head-end production workflow. The new SDI support will be showcased at IBC2019.
Read full press release.
HEAD-END ASSURANCE - AD INSERT, VIRTUALIZATION AND CONTENT LEVEL PERFECTION A modern head-end processes many new and advanced technologies such as SDI, UHD/4K and SCTE 35 ad inserts. It also creates content for multiple platforms and screens. With the flexibility to deploy on-prem, cloud or hybrid, including containers, Agama can monitor your services wherever they are created.
Read more about Agama's solution for head-end assurance.
REMOTE PHY MONITORING IN MODERN CABLE DEPLOYMENTS To manage expectations on broadcast quality' and to create high speed offerings in the most cost-effective way, the transformation to new technologies and infrastructure is underway. The remote PHY monitoring capabilities of the Agama Analyzer gives full insight into the DEPI streams, from the CCAP core towards the remote PHY devices, ensuring that any issues in stream or content integrity can be detected. At IBC2019, this solution was honored with the CSI Award for Best monitoring or network management solution.
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