Agama Provides OTT Video Quality Assurance Solution to Finland's Maxisat
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
(IP&TV World Forum 2012, London, March 20, 2012) - Agama Technologies, the DTV
quality assurance expert, today announces that Finnish IPTV operator Maxisat has
selected an Agama quality assurance solution for automated QoE and QoS
monitoring and testing of over-the-top video services. Supporting linear, VOD
and event delivery models, the deployment will help Maxisat assuring the quality
of its nationwide HLS based OTT service to connected TVs.
"The decision to invest in a quality monitoring solution from Agama was easy,"
says J-P Hela-Aro, Development Manager at Maxisat. "As a provider of high-
quality TV services, it is of strategic importance to provide the best
transparency for our organization and enable them to act quickly in case of a
detected problem. For our pioneering nationwide OTT service to connected Samsung
TV sets, we found a perfect match in Agama's solution and know-how. It will
support us in ensuring the service is available 24/7 with reliable quality to
all our customers."
The selected solution leverages Agama's commercially proven state-of-the-art
analysis engine to perform powerful QoE and QoS monitoring of OTT services, and
it supports multiple adaptive bitrate formats, including both Apple® HTTP Live
Streaming (HLS) and Microsoft® Silverlight Smooth Streaming. It provides top-
level alarms, dashboard widgets and service status overviews, as well as drill-
down features with detailed metrics and extensive event logs down to each
individual session, all to create awareness and understanding of problems and
their impact on the end customers' TV experience.
"We see a high market interest in our OTT monitoring product line, and we are
proud to be selected to provide a solution for Maxisat to ensure their new
service," says Mikael Dahlgren, CEO at Agama Technologies. "The number of
services on the market utilizing adaptive bitrate technologies is rapidly
growing; both as new OTT service offerings and as multiscreen and 'TV
Everywhere' additions to existing services. Agama's DTV Monitoring Solution
provides the perfect match for both these segments."
The proven Agama DTV Monitoring Solution can be efficiently tailored for fully
concurrent and real-time quality monitoring of adaptive bitrate streaming video
services across the end-to-end OTT service distribution. It is ideal for all TV
operators moving to multiscreen offerings, allowing OTT services to be monitored
together with for instance traditional IPTV and cable TV - all in a single
system. Visitors to Agama's stand 179 at IP&TV World Forum 2012 in London on
March 20-22 can experience live demonstrations of end-to-end TV monitoring set-
ups for multiplatform and multiscreen environments.
Media contact:
Emelie Svensson
Marketing Communications Manager
Agama Technologies
emelie.svensson(at)agama.tv
+46 13 240 330
About Agama Technologies
Agama Technologies provides next generation quality assurance and monitoring
solutions for digital TV and video services. As the first company to provide
complete and proven end-to-end, multi-metric monitoring solutions, Agama
continues to pioneer and innovate. TV operators and service providers worldwide
rely on the established Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for systematic
improvements of service quality and customer satisfaction, all while reducing
operational costs and quality induced churn. Agama Technologies AB is based in
Linköping, Sweden, and is privately held. For more information,
visit www.agama.tv.
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Full press release (PDF):
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