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InMedia

Witbe Sets Milestone In OTT
Root Cause Analysis
By Jean-Michel Planche,
VP Technology & Innovation, Witbe

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ccording to Tim Fernholz &
David Yanofsky, the Internet is
a "confusing place and nobody knows
what makes your Netflix slow". It's
a common misperception, and one
that Witbe set out to debunk with its
cutting-edge Smartping technology.
Witbe, a leader in Quality of
Experience (QoE) test and monitoring,
coupled its award-winning Witbe
Smartping with the other major Witbe
monitoring technologies, making this
algorithm compatible with any Witbe
Robot running Windows.
An innovation that enables any
company to combine Smartping's
potential with other Witbe tests,
they can now use its unique features
- locate and troubleshoot delivery
chains' bottlenecks - not only in
correlation with the Witbe OTT, Witbe

Streaming or Witbe Application Tests,
but also with the Witbe Mean Opinion
Score Technology.
It gives broadcasters and operators
an
unmatched
opportunity
to
proactively detect and explain any
quality deterioration, and ultimately to
ensure end-user loyalty.
It is all about combining on a single
appliance the monitoring of the quality
being delivered to the end-user, and
the instant localisation of any network
issue that might have an impact on
that quality.
Combined with the comparison
feature on the Witbe Portal, the
new Smartping compatibility gives
comprehensible and automatic Root
Cause Analysis of their services' quality
issues, and proactive diagnoses of any
deterioration and its cause.

Witbe hail this innovation as
a ground breaking step for OTT
Monitoring. The Witbe MOS
Algorithm metrics and alerts
can now be combined with
Witbe Smartping's capabilities.
Jerky, blurred, blocky, frozen
or black screens, content delivery
errors: their real-time detection is
combined with precise localisation and
diagnosis of the delivery issue - bad
routing, bandwidth saturation, CDN
congestion, routing asymmetry, packet
loss.
In addition to democratising
IP
knowledge,
this
innovation
provides relevant information for
troubleshooting,
Service
Level
Agreement enforcement, long-term
quality monitoring...
Jean-Michel Planche, VP Technology
& Innovation and Co-Founder of Witbe,
said: "Measuring the QoS of a delivery
chain and detecting delivery issues
is not controlling the real quality

Innovative Root
Cause Analysis
from Witbe

being delivered. These two notions
are not related in that way anymore.
It's no longer possible to guess your
end-users' satisfaction from the
quality of the transport's nodes and
streams. Today, Witbe set a new
milestone in Root Cause Analysis with
the compatibility of its Smartping, IP
transport analysis, with every major
Witbe Monitoring Technologies. Witbe
now provides anyone with relevant
information that was previously only
accessible to IP gurus, and with a lot of
hard work.
"Sorry Tim & David, it's now possible
to know actually what makes your
Netflix slow," said Planche.

VITEC Showcases Streaming
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n show at CCW will be VITEC's
professional series of portable
H.264 encoding and streaming
appliances.
Featuring Zixi and ProMPEG errorcorrection
technologies,
VITEC's
professional series of portable HEVC
and H.264 encoding and streaming
appliances, the MGW Premium, MGW
Nano, and MGW Pico are a field-proven
family of rugged, compact, and pocketsized streaming appliances designed
for low-latency streaming of HD/SD
content in the most demanding of
environments. Designed for stationary
and field applications, the small
footprint encoders ingest and stream
video, audio, and critical metadata
from any source, anytime, anywhere.
The MGW Premium is VITEC's highest
density unit capable of encoding up
to two HD sources or up to four SD

MGW D265 HEVC IP decoder

sources simultaneously. The MGW
Premium encoder is the ideal allin-one appliance for encoding and
streaming of TV feeds from HDMIbased set-top boxes, desktop screen
imagery, or other analogue sources.
Designed
for
single-source
applications, the MGW Nano is a more
compact unit featuring HD/SD/SDI
and HDMI. MGW Nano is offered with
standard connectors or in an airborne
certified rugged version called MGW
Nano Tough, which features MILSTD 38999 interfaces and enhanced
environmental ratings.
At only the size of a credit card, the
MGW Pico is the smallest, lightest, and
most powerful H.264 HD/SD encoder
on the market. Weighing less than
seven ounces, MGW Pico boasts HD/
SD-SDI and composite inputs with
the same compression quality and
capability as the
MGW Premium and
Nano, in an ultrasmall form factor
for manned and
unmanned vehicles.
On display at CCW is

VITEC's all-new MGW Ace
appliance, the industry's
first 100% hardwarebased HEVC portable
device for encoding
and
streaming
video.
Powerful
yet compact, the
revolutionary device
features HEVC (H.265)
VITEC MGW Ace for HEVC encoding and streaming video
bandwidth-efficient
compression, as well as legacy H.264
live, on-demand, or recorded video
capabilities.
over their existing IP infrastructure.
Its wide selection of I/Os and low
Using the EZ TV Web portal,
power consumption using VITEC's
administrators can easily create,
HEVC compression chip make it a
manage, and distribute video assets
perfect solution for streaming video,
while the solution's browser-based
audio, and KLV metadata while in the
EZ TV Player uses the market's most
field or on the move.
flexible digital video codec to offer
When coupled with the MGW D265
CPU-efficient quality playback of IPTV
portable HEVC IP decoder, it becomes
streams across networks.
an end-to-end, on-the-go streaming
Now equipped with a new add-on
solution for broadcast, military,
for IPTV settings, the solution easily
medical, education, enterprise, telco,
complements any IPTV deployment
government, transportation, sports,
with
quality
and
compliance
and entertainment.
dashboards, as well as instant
At CCW, VITEC will be showcasing
alerts - ensuring all video, audio,
its award-winning EZ TV IPTV system,
and metadata services are delivered
which allows any facility to deliver
reliably to users.
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