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Kabel Deutschland has deployed IneoQuest's Audience Measurement Platform for
Adaptive Streaming (AMP ASM) and the complementary AMP Endpoint Analytics SDK
Rohde & Schwarz designed its GNSS simulator for the R&S SMBV100A
with a focus on production testing of GNSS receivers

BeiDou and Galileo satellite systems
and includes a wealth of additional
test functions for characterising GNSS
chipsets and modules.
The company now offers a new,
speed-optimised
production
tester - the R&S SMBV100A vector
signal generator equipped with the
R&S SMBV-P101 package. During
production testing of modules
and receivers for satellite-based
communications, the basic GNSS signal
reception and the connection between
the antenna and GNSS chipset need to
be checked.
At IBC 2015, Video Clarity will
showcase a smaller, lighter, rackmountable version of its RTM 3G
real-time monitoring device. This new,
portable 2-RU version incorporates
SSD technology, which saves space
and creates higher reliability. RTM
3G is used for short or long-term
quality monitoring of live and prerecorded 3 Gbps content to detect
subtle or intermittent errors. With
RTM 3G, users can test the quality of
any delivered service they deploy either from broadcast interfaces or
IP networks. In doing so, they will be
able to understand service and product
performance levels and perfect
programme delivery before or during
content delivery.
RTM 3G features DMOS, a fullresolution,
full-reference-quality
human
perceptual
measurement
performed in real-time. DMOS allows
users to view a channel's quality

without the complexity of setting up
one or more recordings first. When
video or audio runs outside of preset
quality measurement thresholds,
RTM 3G will automatically record the
unacceptable clips and log the quality
scores. RTM 3G also enables multiple
audio and video measurements in one
system at the same time, and users
get a high degree of accuracy because
recordings are in the uncompressed
domain.
Quantel and Snell will be out in force
at IBC 2015. New developments include
technology that enables intelligent
monitoring
across
the
media
production chain to provide joined-up,
error free content delivery to multiple
platforms.
"IBC 2015 marks the beginning of
a genuinely exciting new era for the
company," said Tim Thorsteinson,
Quantel and Snell CEO. "In the five
months since NAB, we have radically
overhauled and brought together
every aspect of the two businesses to
create a new company with a unique
mix of experience and energy. We have
embarked on a visionary development
roadmap that will enable our
customers to transition their business
models at a rate which suits them,
providing certainty in this time of
unprecedented change. The first fruits
of our new direction are on show at
IBC, and I'm looking forward to sharing
it with our customers."
In its latest release of the system
software for its digital media

At IBC 2015, Video Clarity will showcase a smaller, lighter, rack-mountable
version of its RTM 3G real-time monitoring device

monitoring
products,
Bridge
Technologies has introduced a
completely new way of calibrating
the system and automating detailed
fault-tracking.
Called
Gold
TS
Protection, this test model simplifies
the complexities of ETR290 set-up and
dramatically accelerates the diagnosis
of changes from the Protection
standard - even those that would not
otherwise cause alarm conditions.
By allowing users to take a 'snapshot'
of a correctly functioning stream, Gold
TS Protection creates a comprehensive
Protection against which the stream is
subsequently compared. Thereafter,
any deviation from the values in the
Protection is automatically detected
and presented in an instantly
understandable colour-coded display.
"The ETR290 standard is extremely
complex and very, very few people
in the industry understand all of its
ramifications," said Simen Frostad,
Chairman, Bridge Technologies.
"There are thousands of parameters
and data tables to work through, and
in the real world operators cannot get
a complete grip of all this, especially
when setting up large numbers of
streams. Gold TS Protection does
away with the need to understand and

explicitly set parameters for all of the
tests, while delivering the most precise
and forensic pinpointing of deviations
- far surpassing the error-detection
and alarming capabilities available
elsewhere."
Paris-based Witbe is celebrating its
fifteenth year of operations. Launched
in 2005, Witbe's Triple Play test &
monitoring solution has been regularly
improved with add-ons and upgrades.
Triple Play is now 4K-ready, while
Witbe Workbench enables Witbe's
clients to emulate their end-users' real
interactions with any service in less
than five minutes.
"Thanks to its 15 years of experience
and customer proximity, Witbe
has developed a global vision on
monitoring and tests automation
technologies, allowing to continuously
tackle the industries' main critical
issues for a hundred OTT & Video
Operators," says CEO Marie-Véronique
Lacaze. "This global vision is now
tangible with our latest product, Witbe
Earth - a response to a major digital
distributors' need, enabling Quality
Assurance managers to track the
events proactively generated by Witbe
Robots around the world, from a top
point-of-view and in real-time."

Rohde & Schwarz has received an order from BAE Systems to equip the
Type 26 Global Combat Ship (T26 GCS) with an integrated communications system
for the British Royal Navy. The core component is the R&S NAVICS, a new IP-based
switching system with a unique security concept
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