Bridge, TANDBERG Team for IPTV Monitoring Products

A new partnership between Bridge Technologies and TANDBERG Television will allow the companies to market the VideoBRIDGE series of IP-Probes for IPTV monitoring. TANDBERG will supply VideoBRIDGE installations to broadcasters, telcos and network operators worldwide, providing what the companies call the most advanced end-to-end monitoring solution available in the industry.

The collaboration integrates VideoBRIDGE with TANDBERG’s nCompass management and monitoring system. The VideoBRIDGE/nCompass system provides a comprehensive set of tools and features including full alarm and event handling, settings backup, and MDI MEDIA WINDOW, all from within nCompass. In addition, MDI threshold settings and element management are directly controllable from within the nCompass application.

"For the IPTV industry to attract and keep new customers, it's important that operators can ensure the best quality of service," says Richard Bullock, business development manager at TANDBERG Television. "The VideoBRIDGE technology is a vital part of a quality-assured IPTV system, and together with nCompass it delivers full and complete data on performance from playout to consumer."

The VideoBRIDGE series of probes are industrial platforms for the converging services employing stream-based IP packets. Compatible with all major stream-based industrial standards such as MPEG-2, H.264/AVC and WM9/VC-1, the VideoBRIDGE series offers a complete end-to-end system for the continuous quality assurance of a network.