Witbe, a developer of Quality of Experience (QoE) test and monitoring solutions for service providers, has opened its new Canadian office. Witbe’s Canadian team will be based in downtown Montreal, Place Ville Marie. Witbe provides software and services for Broadcasters, Telco and Cable service providers to test and monitor the quality of their voice, video […]
DNA has commenced field tests of second-generation digital cable transmission technology, in cooperation with Teleste. Future capacity-intensive services will benefit from DVB-C2 significantly, but no decision to deploy the new technology alongside the present DVB-C has been made in the company yet. The present cable TV transmission technology is based on the European DVB-C standard […]
Agama Technologies (IBC:4.A55), the video service quality assurance expert, has been selected by Digea (Digital Provider S.A.) to provide a powerful head-end monitoring solution for its digital terrestrial transmissions of private channels all over Greece. The business is conducted in a partnership with regional systems integrator Cybertec. Digea, a consortium founded in 2009 by seven […]
The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) and the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) Consortium have announced their collaboration on the testing of technologies common to IPTV and enhanced broadcast environments. These include testing the Declarative Application Environment (colloquially referred to as the “OIPF browser”) and the Media Formats specifications that are currently being implemented in retail […]
SMIT Corporation, a provider of devices that enable secure digital content delivery, has jointly introduced its Integrated CI Plus Conditional Access Module (“Integrated CAM”), which bundles a pre-paired high security smart card chip with a proven designed CI Plus module with Conax, a global provider of solutions for protecting multi-device digital content. Integrated CAM’s new […]
Farncombe, a provider of Digital TV technology consultancy, has released early results of its Security and Piracy Survey conducted in August 2012. Among a wealth of industry input, the survey found that the pay-TV industry’s main piracy concern over the next five years is shifting from control word sharing, which is viewed as the largest […]
Conax has announced that Finnish Cable and Terrestrial operator, DNA, has entered a multiscreen pilot with partners Conax, Cubiware, MPS Broadband and Envivio. The pilot will include end-user testing with various multiscreen services and devices. It will also address the operational processes and procedures required for DNA to support advanced multiscreen services, and to prepare […]
Witbe, a developer of Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring solutions for service providers, has announced that Belgacom, the incumbent telecom operator in Belgium, has deployed its Multiscreen Quality Manager solution to ensure its subscribers enjoy the best quality of experience when watching TV on any device. The Witbe platform is using the Belgacom TV service […]
Tektronix, the market leader in broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, has announced its theme of “Video Content Quality Assurance”. Highlights for this year’s show include the launch of a new master sync pulse generator, future additions to the award-winning Sentry family for the early detection and diagnosis of video and audio content errors, […]
Verimatrix has announced that Russia’s TVzavr is securing its OTT VoD service with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for Internet TV. Moscow-based TVzavr is an online aggregator of professional video content that welcomes more than two million visitors per month, with a 60 per cent return rate. Alexander Belenov, general director of online […]