Monday 10.09.2012 Trouble-shooting for IPTV latest Monitoring the IPTV experience Mariner By Anne Morris
Given the increase in IPTV service deployments and multiscreen video services, IPTV monitoring is expected to be an important topic for service providers attending IBC this year. As a provider of IPTV monitoring solutions for multiscreen networks, Mariner is one of the companies demonstrating its range of video service monitoring solutions designed to increase
Helm covers third-party technology
Rascular By Michael Burns
The latest version of Helm, Rascular’s flagship product for direct access to third- party hardware
technologies, has launched
at IBC. In a major product advance, Helm is now integrated with Ross Video’s openGear protocol.
Helm allows customers to pick best-of-breed technologies – branding devices, routers, video servers, VTRs, multi-image
display processors and modular gear – from a range of different manufacturers and provides a single, integrated, user- defined PC-based control/monitoring surface for operators. By integrating with Ross
Helm has the potential to control any technology
Video’s openGear platform standard – which is designed from the ground
efficiencies for service providers while improving subscribers’ overall quality of experience on every device.
Mariner has announced significant enhancements to its end-to-end service assurance solution Mariner xVu, including exclusive pre- integration with the industry’s leading probe manufacturers and feature enhancements that improve installation quality and efficiency as well as increase customer satisfaction.
Mariner is also showcasing its frostt IPTV application
management platform, a highly scalable, open architecture solution that allows operators to reliably deliver and monitor feature- rich, revenue-generating IPTV applications.
Using a standards-based interface, frostt can be integrated into the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV ecosystem to improve the quality of experience. Applications can easily be customised according to region, device type, and language, allowing operators to offer
compelling ranges of IPTV applications. 14.521
up as an open protocol – Helm now has the potential to control any and all technology that also adheres to the openGear standard.
The update follows a
recent announcement from Rascular that Helm is now also integrated with Snell’s RollCall protocol. 8.B38a
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