QoE the focus as playout move to the cloud

21 June 2021


InBroadcast – global broadcast industry monthly magazine | Article Written by Adrian Pennington with contribution from Alison Pavitt, Director of Sales & Marketing at Pebble Effectively monitoring a steadly increasing number of channels at a centralised operations center is critical to the success of OTT services. OTT platforms must process and deliver multiple video formats […]

InBroadcast – global broadcast industry monthly magazine | Article

Written by Adrian Pennington with contribution from Alison Pavitt, Director of Sales & Marketing at Pebble

Effectively monitoring a steadly increasing number of channels at a centralised operations center is critical to the success of OTT services. OTT platforms must process and deliver multiple video formats to different display devices, different screen sizes and resolutions, at different bit rates, increasing the quantity and complexity of monitoring.

As the number of channels for OTT delivery continues to grow, monitoring these channels in a highly automated way has become paramount to ensuring a good Quality of Experience for the viewer. To deliver QoE that’s as good as linear TV broadcasts, the entire system – from ingest to multi-bitrate encoding to delivery to CDN – must be monitored continuously…

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