Traditionally, Quality Control (QC) processes required substantial hardware setups and dedicated physical spaces within studios or production facilities to determine if a program could be broadcast. The prevailing methods used in these suites were relatively simple measurements. An asset was measured and could be over or under specific video or audio values. If the values fell into range it was thumbs up, if the limits were exceeded then it was thumbs down.
It airs or it doesn’t.
The media landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Consumer expectations have evolved, demanding diverse content, accessible anytime and anywhere, on a multitude of devices. This surge in demand, coupled with advancements in technology like cloud infrastructure and edge computing, has revolutionized how media is produced and distributed. While these changes present exciting opportunities, they also pose significant challenges for content providers striving to balance high-quality viewer experiences with operational efficiency and sustainability.
The revolutionary dataminer.MediaOps product seamlessly blends media technology and workflows with information and communication technology (ICT), introducing a new era of data-driven, automated, and simplified media operations. Central to its architecture is the concept of the digital twin of the media operation—housing all network statistics, metrics, counters and configurations, coupled with vital business information like event schedules, asset inventory, playlists, electronic program guide (EPG) data, and more.
This time last year, there was a strong expectation that by 2024, live HDR production would be poised to take the broadcast industry by storm. This forecast has indeed materialized, with HDR production being used more and more, but with a twist. Within the industry, there has been a common tendency to conflate UHD and HDR — a presumption that live productions would predominately feature UHD with HDR. However, as the broadcast community delves deeper into consumer preferences and factors that drive consumer behavior, it has become evident that HDR stands out as the driver of consumer sentiment.
There is a human instinct to distil things down into neat packages. Even the biggest questions that face us are posed in the singular; what is the meaning of life? We aren’t happy when people suggest there might be multiple meanings; operating either in isolation or in parallel. We want a coherent, simple, distilled, unifying and singular response. It’s what makes Douglas Adams’ pithy responses of ‘42’ so wonderful; it satisfies all of our desires in terms of what we want from the answer to life, the universe and everything (except of course the really crucial one: meaning).
IP, OTT delivery, and remote working environments have become an integral part of media companies’ workflows, adding significant complexity to production and distribution paths and challenging media and entertainment companies’ capabilities to deliver high-quality content. Solutions to simplify workflow insights, including visualization, while maintaining high quality are necessary factors in the race to remain competitive. TAG Content Matching technology provides a vital capability in the toolsets users require for more transparent workflows, allowing them to get to the root cause of problems faster and troubleshoot more efficiently, even in the most complex, elaborate scenarios.
Connectivity has been Telenor’s domain for more than 160 years, with the purpose to connect its customers to what matters most. In Sweden, Telenor is one of the largest providers of mobile, broadband and TV. The TV offering covers both delivery of IPTV as well as OTT services.
During the last 10 years, Agama has been proud to be a provider of video observability solutions to Telenor Sweden, becoming an important part of the operational platform. The deployment covers both network points with the Agama Analyzer and Analyzer OTT, as well customer experience observability for STBs and a multitude of apps and platforms such as Connected TVs using the Agama CDM solution.
The Agama CDM solution is a platform for observability down to the individual devices, providing visualization, analytics, alarming and correlation, creating detailed insights about customer experience and device health.
With a lightweight client integrated in the device or app, the solution continuously ingests events, metrics and metadata from all devices in use in real-time.
As the telecommunications landscape continues to evolve rapidly, telcos face a multitude of challenges. These challenges, if not addressed strategically, can compromise customer satisfaction, inflate operational expenses, and hamper operational efficiency. One of the primary pain points driving these difficulties is the management and delivery of high-quality video experiences to end users. Here, we will look at how a video quality of experience monitoring solution, like that offered by Agama Technologies, can address these critical issues.
Media content delivery generates a lot of logs. This is a fact well understood at G&L, since we facilitate the distribution of audio and video content, live and on-demand, for some major broadcasters and official bodies to end users. We know well that log data has no lesser commercial value than the content itself. Log misdelivery can lead to short-term profit losses for streaming and broadcasting service providers. These issues can affect advertising exposure assessment, long-term planning, and more. Providing accurate data and analytics alongside our core services is our dedication, duty, bread and butter.
IP is a fundamental component of modern computer networking and internet communication. Technical staff need to be familiar with IP to effectively manage, troubleshoot, and optimize networked systems and services in a wide range of technical disciplines. For this reason, IP is the accepted Protocol for almost all information transfer, including KVM, which allows remote access and control of servers and devices over standard IP networks. KVM enables efficient management of remote equipment, which makes it ideal for live events, news and sports, where systems and operators are often located in OB vans at remote locations.