Mitchell Seaforth Cable TV Relies on Witbe’s Award-Winning Witbox and Channel Change Technology for Live Cable TV Monitoring
NEW YORK — Oct. 22, 2024 — Witbe (Euronext Growth – FR0013143872 – ALWIT), a global leader in test automation and monitoring technology for video service providers, today announced that Mitchell Seaforth Cable TV (MSCTV), a leading Canadian provider of unique solutions to telecommunications companies, is using Witbe’s proactive monitoring technology as a virtual Network Operation Center (NOC) — accessible from anywhere in the world. With the monitoring data they receive from Witbe’s technology, MSCTV can provide a superior video quality of experience to linear TV application users.
“Video quality is a fundamental pillar of success at MSCTV. Our partnership with Witbe ensures that we can meet and exceed our customers’ expectations for an exceptional linear viewing experience,” said Michael Hawkes, general manager at MSCTV. “Witbe’s technology will play a significant role in ensuring that the features and content of our pay-TV services are validated, tested, and presented to our customers with outstanding quality.”
Witbe’s proactive monitoring technology automatically monitors any video service running on a physical device plugged into a Witbox — the company’s signature testing robot. MSCTV is using the Witbox+ to efficiently test TiVo white-labeled video apps running on real set-top boxes. With Witbe’s virtual NOC technology, service providers can remotely control their local field-testing test devices and supervise their service from any global location.
“Our proactive monitoring technology gives providers a reliable eye on their video service at all times,” said Mathieu Planche, CEO at Witbe. “We’re pleased that our live TV monitoring technology is assisting MSCTV as they oversee many different linear TV applications, giving their team the tools to identify and resolve any potential video errors quicker than ever before.”
MSCTV is also using Witbe’s widely adopted Channel Change technology to automatically monitor the live availability of all linear channels on a video service. Providers utilizing this technology receive immediate alerts whenever channels are unavailable or experiencing an issue — helping teams resolve errors before viewers even notice them. Alerts and KPIs are also displayed live in the virtual NOC for active users to instantly verify. All monitoring data is then compiled in Smartgate, Witbe’s observability platform, where results can be analyzed across all devices, regions, and software versions.
Additional information about Witbe’s live TV monitoring technology and its Witbox product line is available at www.witbe.net.
About Witbe (www.witbe.net)
Witbe (Euronext Growth – FR0013143872 – ALWIT) makes automated testing and proactive monitoring technology for global video service providers. The company’s award-winning technology accurately measures the quality of experience that viewers receive. Witbe’s non-intrusive, plug-and-play technology replicates user behavior to automatically test and monitor video services from anywhere in the world. The Witbe Software Suite allows teams to remotely access their Witbox robot, which can control, test, and monitor any video app running on a real device. The essential data collected by the Witbox can then be analyzed and shared in Witbe’s observability platform.
Witbe’s recent innovations include its streamlined Automated Testing Set, deploying automation and providing QA results faster than ever before; its popular Ad Monitoring and Matching technology to resolve dynamic ad insertion errors; its acclaimed Smart Navigate AI algorithm; and its new Mobile Quality of Experience and Video Traffic Optimization technology. Witbe has a dozen offices around the world and is proud to have customers — including Comcast, Cox, Verizon, Peacock, and Orange — in more than 50 countries. More information and further updates are available at www.witbe.net.
About Mitchell Seaforth Cable TV (www.msctv.ca)
MSCTV is a leader in providing unique solutions to telecommunications companies, from ABR encoding to TiVo white labeled applications for linear TV, as well as IP transport and network redundancy. Mitchell Seaforth Cable TV has been in the video business for over 50 years, from the analog days of providing TV through digital IPTV to current live streaming linear TV applications. They offer a robust network that receives videos from several locations to minimize streaming issues. MSCTV’s headend consists of multiple points of redundancy, including two back-up generators, inverters, N+1 encoding, and their signature 100g MPLS network. For more information, contact info@msctv.ca.
