monitoring.
More and
more solutions
are possible
strictly in
software, and
do not require
customised
and expensive
hardware
platforms. The
real challenge
is likely to be the learning curve for the
‘television’ engineers out there who now must
contend with different cabling, routers, and
an abundance of non-television traffic being
carried by their newly minted video-over-IP
systems.
if you are outsourcing parts of your video
delivery chain to a third party, it becomes
more of an SLA issue. In this case, it becomes
very important to objectively understand the
service quality at the ingress to and egress
from the external service provider. Whether
this monitoring should shift to the cloud or not
no one can afford having the same amount
of legacy T&M equipment. The cloud is the
only answer to this growing multi-platform
distribution environment, flexibly scaling
as requirements grow and change, and
immediately addressing the issues whenever
and wherever the need is. This ensures
Segment Survey 2016
As service provision moves to the Cloud,
must T&M also?
Accenture: There does indeed need to be
virtualised testing in the cloud. An uptick
in continuous delivery and DevOps means
there is an increased demand for teams to
work cross-functionally. The Cloud provides
greater accessibility, additional elasticity and
scalability for testing and monitoring systems.
Ultimately, the focus must be centred on the
quality of experience the customer has so it is
about applying the most relevant testing at the
most appropriate time. As such, testing must
be flexible enough to work within virtual and
real world environments.
Agama: Moving services to the cloud can
involve both a business model change and a
technology change. From a technical point
of view, if an operator virtualises parts of
the service infrastructure, it makes a lot of
sense to also virtualise relevant parts of the
monitoring solution. On the other hand,
is really a separate question. Either way, when
moving to cloud-based solutions, the operator
should take care to have complete control of
the monitoring and ownership of the resulting
data.
Bridge: The Cloud is the future, and T&M
should share the same home as the network.
There are, though, misconceptions about what
it is that we perhaps need to dispel. The Cloud
is more of a business model than a technology
model: at the end of the day, we may say that
we are moving to the Cloud, but we’re still,
in effect, just executing the same software on
the same hardware – it’s just somewhere else.
The difference is mostly in how we pay for it,
and perhaps who manages it. It’s a natural
direction for us at Bridge Technologies to take
– in fact, one that we have already taken..
Qligent: Absolutely! With services moving
to the cloud, there is no single path or single
point of failure. There are millions of ways
your service could reach your customers, and
unprecedented coverage while optimising
monetary investments.
Rohde & Schwarz: To monitor cloud-based
content delivery it is important to provide
monitoring solutions that can be deployed
in cloud-based environments and make it
possible to detect the cloud-specific problems.
Monitoring a service running over the cloud
using a platform running in the cloud makes
total sense.
“Operators are now
beginning to invest in
T&M and put this at the
core of their service to
ensure a seamless QoE
across all devices.” Accenture Digital Video
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