Agama Technologies Stand 4.A71. Agama is showcasing its complete solution for end-to-end video service assurance monitoring – quality assurance for IP, cable and OTT video services.
But the main focus lies in its latest OTT and multiscreen developments, with a preview of its upcoming Version 4.5.
Agama’s QA client for Embedded Monitoring is now available for all major OTT device platforms, including iOS, Android, Silverlight for PC, Windows Phone and Xbox, JavaScript (Smart TV/HTML5) and Flash. This wide-ranging client support makes quick and streamlined implementations possible and it enables operators to gain visibility of the end-user quality experience and behaviour regardless of the mix of end-devices. Relevant service usage and quality metrics are continuously collected in real-time from the OTT clients, scalable to millions of devices. No matter what type of client or device, the metrics can be presented in an intuitive, unified and efficient manner to create operational transparency for service operation teams, the vendor stated.
Agama will also present the latest edition of Analyzer OTT, its adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming QA probe range for fully automated QoS/QoE monitoring and testing of OTT video. This now supports the MPEG-DASH ABR streaming technology standard for active monitoring of live and on-demand MPEG-DASH streams, in addition to the already supported HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Smooth Streaming protocols.
“Our solution can now, better than ever, support any combination of IP, cable and OTT video services; and, we continue to reinforce the position we have within true multiscreen and multiservice quality assurance,” explains Johan Görsjö, director of product management at Agama Technologies. “Monitoring information from the head-end encoding, the CDN edge-caches and the quality of the end-user experience, can be seamlessly integrated to create a full end-to-end understanding of the service quality – per customer, service, region and device. This helps operators to proactively resolve any issues before they impact on their customer base”.