ANGA COM 2014. Stand V10. Norwegian Bridge Technologies (www.bridgetech.tv) creates advanced systems for ensuring high-quality, profitable digital media service delivery in broadcast, cable, satellite, OTT and telecoms applications. Including analysis, measurement, and monitoring systems, intelligent redundancy switching, and comprehensive analytics solutions for TV-Everywhere providers.
At ANGA COM Bridge Technologies will show its new QoE (Quality of Experience) solution, enabling operators of Bridge systems to bring the industry’s most sophisticated QoS capability together with state of the art QoE monitoring – all running on the same Bridgetech infrastructure, and with support for QoE monitoring of regionally-inserted material.
New products are Satellite Redundancy Switch VB273, DVB-C2 Monitoring Module VB266, and the VB288 Content Extraction System for Objective QoE Monitoring with a remote videowall display.
At the heart of the Objective QoE system, the VB288 delivers visual content extraction, status displays and alerts to a remote videowall display that can be viewed through any web browser.
Running on a standard high-specification server, the VB288 can power displays of large numbers of HD H.264 and H.265/HEVC channels in multiple browser windows. With an easy ’embedded feel’ setup and operation experience, and accessible from any location, the VB288 provides a highly effective validation tool that is easily adaptable to any monitoring strategy, and readily usable by busy engineers on the move.
The first of a new line of products, the VB273 module is designed for Bridge Technologies’ new carrier-grade intelligent redundancy switching solution for satellite uplinks. The VB273 module works with a VB272 and VB120 in a redundant chassis to monitor two signals from dual production chains and switch to the backup chain if the main chain fails. A sophisticated automatic decision engine uses Bridge’s advanced ETR290 analysis functionality and compares error condition results against user defined rules. Far outstripping the simple ETR290 alarm analyzers and black box switchers broadcasters have used until now, the Bridge VB273 system’s rich feature set and powerful analysis and standalone decision capabilities make it the most comprehensive and versatile solution available to date.
State of the art coding and modulation techniques in the new DVB-C2 allows cable operators to achieve greater than 30% higher spectrum efficiency under the same conditions, with downstream channel capacity gains greater than 60% for optimized HFC networks. The new VB266 DVB-C2 Monitoring Module, RF Interface card, means that for the first time cable operators have access to a future-ready monitoring capability as they begin to roll out DVB-C2 upgrades to their networks.