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Video Quality

Monitoring & Analytics

Telestream iQ solutions solve three core business challenges for any video service provider:

Enhanced Visibility

            • Network Performance
            • Content Quality Levels
            • Embedded Meta Data

Faster Diagnostics

              • Realtime Alerts
              • Troubleshooting
              • Historical Reports

Compliance & SLA

                • Audio Loudness
                • Close Caption
                • Advertising

Video Quality Monitoring & Analytics by Telestream iQ

Telestream iQ Key Benefits

Automation

Automated surveillance of each transition in the video delivery chain with summarized end-to-end view.

Analytics

Deep dive analytics data to identify video quality issues and their root causes.

Probes

The largest and most complete portfolio of video analysis probes that cover SMPTE 2110, Linear TV (TS), and ABR distribution. Your

Inspector LIVE – In-depth content QoE monitoring

            • Measure video quality “on-the-fly”, before your content is delivered through the network.
            • Continuously evaluate the health and performance of your encoding/transcoding resources
            • Simultaneous 24/7 QoE & QoS monitoring and analysis with customizable alarming and triggering
            • Detects, decodes, displays and logs the encoded High Dynamic Range (HDR), Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) parameters
            • Measure & monitor Audio Loudness ITU-R BS.1770

Telestream iQ Monitoring and Analytics Applications

Contribution Links
Monitor QoE source contribution feed, encoding, and packaging for OTT Streaming and Linear TV

Content Distribution
QoS monitoring for network delivery, origin servers and CDN with End-to-End service view

VOD Monitoring
Real-time QoS and QoE Video On Demand monitoring with centralized dashboard and reporting

Dynamic Ad Insertion
Monitor linear SCTE-35 ad markerand ABR manifest ad insertion with End-to-End coloration report

Compliance Monitoring
Monitor audio loudness, closed caption, and SLA compliance with historical reporting

Remote PHY Monitoring
Monitor video quality for distributed access architecture with Remote PHY monitoring

Surveyor ABR Passive – Real-time Passive Monitoring of OTT Streaming Video

  • Availability measured for each bitrate variant of published video assets
  • Support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEGDASH (DASH), Microsoft Smooth Stream (MSS), RTMP and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) packaging formats
  • Success rate calculated for each intra-Content Delivery Network (CDN) element and asset for simple identification of performance impairment
  • Measurement and error detection for accessibility, ABR protocol, and streaming performance
  • Origin, load balancer, and cache error detection based on segment transfer times, latency, and bandwidth

 

Surveyor ABR Active – Proactive Real-Time Monitoring of OTT Streaming Video

  • Monitoring methods – 24/7, round-robin scanning, time synchronized daily schedule, and live event techniques
  • Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring of ABR video traffic using Synthetic Client technology acting like a client to request any asset variant
  • Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring providing visibility into content quality post- origin server for quality and performance visibility from transcoding and packaging
  • Stream performance “at a glance” with Streaming Availability, Video Start Failure, Derived Video Startup Time, and Buffer Percentage
  • Media Decryption monitoring QoE of DRM encrypted streams – supports Synamedia DRM System, PlayReady, EZDRM and Irdeto encryption
  • Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) monitoring, alarming and Ad thumbnail images for visual validation

 

Surveyor TS – Real-Time QoS Monitoring for IP MPEG Transport Streams

  • Full time 24×7 line rate monitoring of video network performance.
  • Ensuring Ad Insertion SCTE-35 signaling delivered to Ad splicers
  • Per program Audio, Video, and Control PID Alarming
  • Continuous analysis of TR 101 290 priorities 1, 2 and 3
  • Unicast, multicast, and broadcast support for comprehensive stream handling

ARGUS – Centralized video quality monitoring & analysis

  • Aggregating monitoring points to a centralized view and a single pane of glass
  • Customizing views of aggregated data based on trends, program, flow, and monitoring points.
  • Diagnose performances differences by asset, geography, time, and CDN
  • Up to 30 days of performance data storage for trend analysis
  • Data correlation from monitoring points across dispersed geographies and networks, providing simplified views by asset, probe, monitoring type, variant, and server.

Flexible Deployment Model

Telestream iQ solutions provides common monitoring technology for any environment and deployment model including cloud, virtual, and on-prem

Cloud
Cloud native Kubernetes support for deployment on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure

Virtual
Container, VMware and LinuxKVM options available for customer owned servers

Appliance
Telestream iQ software pre-installed on optimized and high performance appliance