Interra Systems
BroadcastAsia 2024 Exhibitor Preview
29-31 May 2024
Singapore Expo
Stand 5G1-10
At BroadcastAsia 2024, part of the Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) 2024 event, taking place on May 29-31, Interra Systems will showcase the latest enhancements added to the company’s suite of powerful QC, monitoring, and analysis tools. Alongside its new BATON 9.0 solution, the company’s multi-award-winning ORION monitoring suite — for linear IP-based delivery infrastructures and live/VOD OTT content — and VEGA media analyzer will be on display at BroadcastAsia 2024. Supporting both IP and OTT workflows, Interra Systems’ solutions empower broadcasters and service providers to maintain excellence in quality throughout content preparation and delivery workflows and processes.
“Our impact in APAC is strong, with many customers in the region already deploying our solutions to deliver content with the highest quality for their end users,” said Bibhas Kumar Samanta, sales head, India and MENA, at Interra Systems. “BroadcastAsia remains a prime platform for Interra Systems to demonstrate how our powerful tools help broadcasters and service providers prepare and deliver content with optimized quality, both in APAC and all around the world. In today’s highly competitive media environment, our tools are an essential piece of the media workflow, helping ensure excellence and quality assurance is maintained at every step and every frame.”
Innovations On Display at BroadcastAsia 2024:
Streamlining QC Workflows With BATON At BroadcastAsia 2024, attendees will have the chance to experience the latest version of Interra Systems’ BATON solution. Equipped with cutting-edge AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, this updated version continues to set the standard for automated QC platforms, meeting the most rigorous demands for quality and compliance.
The solution boasts a range of new enhancements, including the new BATON 9.0 engine, which introduces significant framework updates — including NGINX server, Python 3.x, and Postgres. In addition, users can expect optimized MXF file verification alongside a sophisticated diagnostic tool for system health monitoring. API improvements, such as REST and XML-RPC, provide enhanced integration capabilities, while the Auto-Expansion feature sees notable enhancements.
BATON now also offers advanced video quality checks, detecting unwanted frames, field order discrepancies, video dropout, ghosting, black bars, video signal integrity, and black levels. For ensuring comprehensive audio quality assessment across all multimedia elements, further enhancements include Nielsen watermarking detection and audio loudness monitoring, among other features.
Extensive optimizations to Interra Systems’ BATON Media Player simplify how media professionals can play, inspect, and verify audio and video content, which include a revamped user interface, keyboard shortcut options, enhanced real-time playback of UHD content, and other improvements on the usability front.
BATON Captions leverages cutting-edge ML and automatic speech recognition technology to streamline caption-related tasks for broadcasters and media professionals. Its functionalities include comprehensive QC and correction, live-to-VOD repurposing, postproduction editing, and localization for different geographies for the global distribution of media. Recent enhancements shown at BroadcastAsia 2024 will include support for web-based players with rich text editing, on-premises translation support for 108 languages, SAML integration, and support for timestamping.
Improving QoS and QoE With ORION Content Monitoring New ORION and ORION-OTT capabilities extend to a diverse range of deployment scenarios spanning both hybrid and cloud environments, catering to linear broadcast, IP-based delivery infrastructures, and live/VOD OTT content. Other recent enhancements include localization features, certification on the latest operating system releases RHEL 8.8 and Rocky 8.8, support for Dolby Atmos, and the addition of options for SAML-based single sign-on for enhanced security.
Moreover, the ORION-OTT platform now offers support for localization, certification on the latest OS releases RHEL 8.8 and Rocky 8.8, and Dolby Atmos integration. Further updates on display include enhancements to dynamic ad insertion (DAI) and monitoring for server-side ad insertion, monitoring capabilities for low-latency streams, and support for DRMtoday, Nagra, and Comcast DRM solutions. These enhancements collectively bolster ORION’s position as a comprehensive solution for content delivery and management in the evolving media landscape.
Future-Proofing IP Monitoring With ORION 2110 Probe Interra Systems’ ORION 2110 Probe supports the SMPTE ST 2110 standard and enables broadcasters to future-proof the end-to-end monitoring of video quality in IP environments. Features include QoS/QoE monitoring of ST 2110 essence streams, ST 2110 main and redundancy signals, and NMOS integration.
Gaining End-to-End Video Visibility With ORION Central Manager (OCM) Interra Systems’ ORION Central Manager (OCM) offers comprehensive oversight of video operations from end to end. At its core, OCM empowers centralized management of IP and OTT probes, streamlining control and monitoring through a single, intuitive interface. This centralized approach ensures unparalleled quality assurance, facilitating swift error detection and isolation. Recent enhancements to OCM involve end-to-end ad insertion monitoring capabilities, with the ability to compare externally provided ad scheduling data with DAI markers embedded in content, as well as alerts for any issues related to DAI marker propagation within the media workflow. Other updates include support for audio alerts and the implementation of user group permissions for precise access control, further enhancing OCM’s functionality and usability.
Elevating Media Analysis With VEGA Media Analyzer (VMA) Interra Systems’ VEGA is an industry-leading analysis platform for standards compliance, debugging, and interoperability of encoded streams. It offers support for the highest number of industry compression standards, such as AVS, HDR, AV1, GIF, VVC, Dolby Vision, ATSC 3.0, Dolby Atmos, DTS Audio, DolbyE Audio, Dolby AC4, Apple ProRes, JPEG XS, and HEIF.
Company Overview:
Interra Systems stands at the forefront of ensuring end-to-end quality assurance for the ever-evolving media landscape. Meeting the needs of media professionals for every stage of the content life cycle — including in-depth video analysis, media QC and monitoring, and captioning — the company’s extensive one-stop shop of advanced tools is engineered to streamline content preparation and delivery across all stages of both IP and OTT workflows. Widely adopted globally, Interra Systems’ solutions power mission-critical operations for leading broadcasters and streaming service providers across the world. The company’s suite of award-winning products includes the enterprise-class BATON automated QC system; BATON Captions solution with live captioning and machine learning (ML) scoring capabilities; ORION content monitoring platforms for 24/7 quality assurance; and VEGA media analyzers for in-depth video inspection, debugging, and standards compliance.
As the dynamics of the media industry continue to shift, Interra Systems remains a pioneer in quality assurance — staying one step ahead of the evolving media landscape with solutions designed to meet the industry’s critical media QC and monitoring, captioning, and video analysis needs.
For additional information, visit www.interrasystems.com.
