UK's TalkTalk Deploys Agama Solution for IPTV Head-End Quality Assurance
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
(Linköping, September 6, 2011) - Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance
expert, today announces that the UK service provider and YouView partner
TalkTalk has deployed a powerful service monitoring solution from Agama in its
IPTV head-end. With continuous real-time monitoring of all streams, detecting
everything from packet loss to freeze-frame conditions, TalkTalk gains true
control and understanding of the service quality as it leaves the head-end.
Ensuring that the audio and video content-level payload is correct and of high
quality is crucial for the end user's perceived quality of a TV service. Errors
introduced in the head-end, or even before entering the head-end, need to be
detected early to avoid costly misdirected troubleshooting downstream.
Discovering these problems requires content level monitoring, as they can't be
detected in regular IP, transport stream or deep packet inspection analysis. For
this purpose, TalkTalk, one of the leading ISPs in the UK and part of
the YouView project, has taken the first step in true end-to-end IPTV service
quality assurance and selected Agama Technologies to provide a cutting-edge
head-end monitoring solution.
"It's with great pleasure I see that our powerful head-end monitoring offering
proved to be the best fit for TalkTalk, enabling massive content level analysis
in a cost and space efficient way," says Mikael Dahlgren, CEO, Agama
Technologies. "We warmly welcome TalkTalk as a new Agama customer, and look
forward to being their quality assurance partner in the exciting future ahead of
the UK market."
The installation includes Agama Analyzer H-E, a powerful tool for 24/7 full-
service quality monitoring in the head-end, as well as Agama Enterprise Server
for central management, presentation, and extensive alarm handling. With
advanced monitoring of numerous simultaneous video streams also before
encryption, TalkTalk can efficiently verify the outgoing content feeds their
head-end produces. The solution detects conditions such as black screen, freeze
frame, audio silence and excessive macroblocking, but also provides complete
syntactic and semantic verification of all levels of the TV stream. It also
features add-on functionalities for live confidence monitoring, validation of
configured properties of transport streams and error triggered stream recording.
Media contacts:
Emelie Svensson
Marketing Communications Manager
Agama Technologies
emelie.svensson(at)agama.tv
+46 13 240 330
Debbie Roff
PR and Digital Media
TalkTalk Group
debbie.roff(at)talktalkplc.com
+44 203 417 1614
About TalkTalk
* TalkTalk now has over 4.2 million broadband and phone customers signed up to
TalkTalk and AOL Broadband.
* TalkTalk operates a fully unbundled network, which extends to over 2,000
exchanges and covers over 80% of our customers.
* In uSwitch's Customer Satisfaction Report 2010, TalkTalk was voted the best
value for money home phone provider. And in Top10.com's Broadband Awards
2010, TalkTalk Essentials was voted the best home broadband. TalkTalk also
picked up Top10.com's best broadband and home phone award.
* TalkTalk's site is the online hub for customers to manage their account, use
their webmail, resolve their problems and access a range of information and
entertainment content. The site is used by nearly three million users every
month.
* TalkTalk is one of seven partners behind YouView, the new internet-connected
TV service, along with the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Arqiva and Five. YouView
is expected to launch to UK homes in 2012.
* Follow TalkTalk on Twitter and on our blog: (at)TalkTalkTips and
www.talktalkblog.co.uk.
About Agama Technologies
Agama Technologies is a trusted provider of video quality assurance and
monitoring solutions enabling IPTV, Cable, Broadcast and OTT operators to
increase service quality and customer satisfaction while reducing costs and
churn. As the first company to provide complete and proven end-to-end, multi-
metric monitoring solutions, Agama continues to pioneer and innovate. Today,
more than 60 operators worldwide rely on Agama's solutions to ensure TV service
quality and customer satisfaction. Agama Technologies AB is based in Linköping,
Sweden, and is privately held. For more information, visit www.agama.tv.
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Agama Enterprise Server product brief:
http://hugin.info/138960/R/1544101/473149.pdf
Full press release (PDF):
http://hugin.info/138960/R/1544101/473147.pdf
Agama logo:
http://hugin.info/138960/R/1544101/473162.jpg
Agama Analyzer H-E product brief:
http://hugin.info/138960/R/1544101/473148.pdf
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