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InMedia
Interra Systems' ORION Content Monitoring Suite
Enhanced With Updates to Ensure High-Quality
Media Experiences Across Global Audiences
I
nterra Systems' ORION content
monitoring suite has
of
recently
been enhanced with a number of
updates that align with the industry's
goal
delivering high-quality
content experiences. At the heart
of the suite is the ORION platform
for 24x7 confidence monitoring of
linear/IP
real-time monitoring of
video. ORION provides
IP-based
infrastructures, looking at all aspects
of video streams, such as QoS, QoE,
ad-insertion
and
verification, reporting,
troubleshooting. Moreover,
ORION simplifies the task of ensuring
the integrity
throughout
of
the
closed
of
captions
video delivery
chain. It enables real-time parsing,
analysis, and display
accompanied
closed
captions across numerous programs
simultaneously,
by
customizable violation alarms and
comprehensive error reports
efficient troubleshooting.
Recent
updates
include improved
support
for
to ORION
for
localization with the ability to view
the user interface and exported
reports in different languages using
local
to address
preferences. In addition,
the challenges
and
transitioning from
checks,
of
incorporating HDR into media
workflows
baseband to IP infrastructures, the
platform now offers more HDR and
SMPTE ST 2110
checks
including
for mastering display
luminance limits and validation of
SDP and actual content metadata.
Additional
updates
improvements
include
enhancements in scheduled reports;
usability
monitoring views; and support
in live
for
scheduled monitoring.
For live services and VOD assets,
the ORION-OTT content monitoring
solution brings
capabilities
to the multiscreen
environment. With ORION-OTT,
streaming service providers
can verify QoS and QoE for ABR
videos, including checking for
inconsistencies
related
to ABR
package compliance, manifest and
playlist syntax, download errors, and
content quality. Like ORION, ORIONOTT
now offers improved support
for localization and enhancements
in scheduled
reports. Additional
new features that increase customer
satisfaction and retention include:
* Support for Dolby Atmos audio,
allowing OTT service providers to
enhance the audio quality of their
content;
* Monitoring of
streams, which is crucial
low-latency
for the
smooth and uninterrupted delivery of
real-time and interactive content;
* More Dynamic
Adaptive
Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
compliance checks - including stale
publish time and missing flags in the
template - allow potential issues that
may affect the playback experience
to be identified and resolved;
* Improvements
in freeze
detection, with the ability to ignore
pre-configured
slates
quality, and reduced buffering;
* Support
for nested
groups
provides
to reduce
false positives, allow for prompt
troubleshooting, improved
video
content
more flexible
monitoring configurations, making it
easier to identify and address issues
specific to different content types;
* 2-way SSL
access
these same
and
third-party
increased
for more secure
protection
against potential security threats;
* Additional
system alerts
for
integration - including
custom alerting via email, SNMP,
Slack, HTTP, etc. - help with on-thego
decision making and simplify
troubleshooting.
Together, ORION and ORION-OTT
allow broadcasters
providers
services
and
service
to perform critical
monitoring functions on hundreds
of
simultaneously
to important
from
one platform, providing users
with a single point of visibility and
access
information
ORION 2110 Probe ST-2110 Monitoring for IP based Workflows
- such as
status, alerts, alarms,
visible impairments, error reports,
triggered captures, and more. Quality
checks
for the solutions
include
macroblocking, freeze, and black
frames, among others. Audio quality
checks
include loudness, silence,
and levels, and support all popular
audio formats, including Dolby.
For enterprise-wide visibility
into QoE and QoS issues, Interra
Systems' ORION Central Manager
(OCM) enables central management
of multiple ORION linear and ORIONOTT
setups - regardless
geographic
only
of
their
locations. OCM is the
web-based, enterprise-level
solution that centrally monitors probe
health, collects monitoring data from
them, and provides a global alert
summary
for both broadcast and
OTT services. By deploying probes
at multiple workflow points, OCM
increases
efficient
flexibility
by
providing
and
accurate
ensures
bandwidth management
the most
depiction of QoE and QoS. Relying
on the comprehensive video insights
provided by OCM, broadcasters and
service providers can deliver video
with a high QoE on every screen,
Centralized Enterprise wide Monitoring
improve operational
and
increase monetization.
Additional new features
efficiency,
The
latest version of OCM also offers
enhanced support
for localization.
include
end-to-end ad insertion monitoring -
with a complete trail of DAI markers
from pre-transcode to origin and
consolidated DAI reports
for KPIs
such as average ad break durations,
intervals
between ads, and ad
policy compliance - RHEL 8.4, and
new options to schedule database
backups for disaster recovery.
Furthermore, as
transitions
world
the broadcast
toward
IP
infrastructure, monitoring the
complex SMPTE ST 2110 workflow is
essential. The most recent addition
to the ORION suite - the ORION 2110
Probe - performs
comprehensive
ST 2110 monitoring for QoS and
QoE, including ST 2110 main and
redundancy
signals
(PTP) messages
network
and NMOSbased
ST 2110 feed discovery, and
supports
for all
systems that detect quality issues
during the last mile of video delivery,
the 2110 Probe supports
first-mile
video quality monitoring. This allows
users to gain insights about video
errors as early as the ingest stage.
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