OTT StreamWatch from Actus Digital is being billed as “the first product that makes it economically feasible to monitor FAST, IPTV, and OTT streaming channels throughout the entire workflow.” The new OTT monitoring solution, which is being launched at IBC2023, is therefore “a game-changer for OTT quality assurance,” the vendor says.
Actus Digital (IBC Stand 7.B44) is known for its compliance logging and intelligent broadcast and OTT monitoring. OTT StreamWatch provides 24/7 quality assurance, compliance logging, OTT stream monitoring, and aircheck recording of native HLS and other OTT ABR streams. It can be deployed as a standalone solution or as part of the Actus Intelligent Monitoring Platform – providing customers with a central interface.
“OTT StreamWatch combines features that have never been in a solitary product before,” claims Sima Levy, CEO of Actus Digital. “It clearly displays QoS information and users can easily evaluate bandwidth usage, streaming media download times, missing SCTE, manifest errors and buffering issues within OTT streams. And it summarises data so operators can recognise and address potential issues before they impact viewer quality.”
Actus Digital is also showcasing its new Remote Video Monitoring (RVM) within the Actus Intelligent Monitoring Platform. Designed as a quality assurance solution for Pay TV providers, the Actus RVM allows operators to gain real-time insights into their viewers’ QoS and verify local ad insertion and timing.
“MVPDs can remotely connect to STBs at headends, and hub sites can examine one channel at a time or the entire channel line-up via multiviewer monitoring and proactive QoS alerts. When Actus RVM is deployed at multiple probe points and/or in multiple locations, it shows how widespread an issue is, and pinpoints the exact location it entered the video distribution workflow,” the vendor explains. “This allows operators to rapidly identify, diagnose and resolve QoS problems without costly truck rolls.”
