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device and logging each session is reduced to
a single entry containing all of the vital
information to monitor the session every
minute including, for example, average
quality being delivered and any errors.
Farncombe: Whilst technology can help,
organisations need to undertake a cultural
shift. The boundaries between the
development, test and monitoring functions
of a business are becoming more blurred;
processes need to be embraced from top to
bottom; and everyone from the product team
through to the product owner has to
take a more active role in the
development and test process.
JDSU: We are embracing these
technologies and looking to find ways
we can port traditional meter or
analyzer use cases to a tablet form
factor. Our customers are no longer
limited to manually interfacing with a
specialised spectrum analyzer in an
equipment rack. Any consumer can
now be sitting in a window seat on a
cross-country flight with Wi-Fi and
troubleshoot a video service issue in
real-time on an iPad.
Mariner: Software defined monitoring is
replacing a HW-based solutions. SDM allows
service providers to offer a reliable high
quality viewing experience by rapidly
isolating IP video network issues before they
reach the end device.
Nexidia: Automated QC applications are
now commonplace and used by most
broadcasters. They continue to add new
features thus reducing manual review. This
year, for the first time, we have the
availability of tools for completely automated
QC of subtitles, audio description, and
language identification.
S3: Engineering and Operations
departments need to ensure they are
deploying and maintaining the best quality
TV service delivery platforms possible. The
solutions available from the Test and
Monitor industry are evolving to help
operators meet the new challenges being
presented by the growth of cloud-gatewayclient, broadcast-broadband hybrid,
multiscreen TV service platforms. Full testing
and monitoring of these services requires an
end-to-end testing perspective rather than
simply trusting that each point along the
chain will have been tested for standalone
operation and consequently can be trusted to
do its job when operational in an end-to-end
system. Cloud hosting also raises new
concerns about how the platform will operate
in the presence of rising levels of load as new
users come onto the platform.
Tektronix: With ABR, there are two major
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challenges broadly categorised as ‘content
preparation’ and ‘content delivery’. In the
former, ingested content is transcoded into
the various representations of profiles of
each programme at the various specified
bitrates. Each of these profiles needs to be
checked to ensure that the subscriber QoE
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