Agama Provides OTT Video Quality Assurance Solution to Finland's Maxisat

(IP&TV World Forum 2012, London, March 20, 2012) - Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, today announces that Finnish IPTV operator Maxisat has selected an Agama quality assurance solution for automated QoE and QoS monitoring and testing of over-the-top video services. Supporting linear, VOD and event delivery models, the deployment will help Maxisat assuring the quality of its nationwide HLS based OTT service to connected TVs...

New York, 20/03/2012 (informazione.news - comunicati stampa - telecomunicazioni)

) -  Agama Technologies , the DTV quality assurance expert, today announces that Finnish IPTV operator Maxisat has selected an Agama quality assurance solution

says J-P Hela-Aro, Development Manager at Maxisat.

The selected solution leverages Agama's commercially proven state-of-the-art analysis engine to perform powerful QoE and QoS monitoring of OTT services, and it supports multiple adaptive bitrate formats, including both  Apple® HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Microsoft® Silverlight Smooth Streaming . It provides top-level alarms, dashboard widgets and service status over­views, as well as drill-down features with detailed metrics and extensive event logs down to each individual session, all to create awareness and understanding of problems and their impact on the end customers' TV experience.

says Mikael Dahlgren, CEO at Agama Technologies.

The proven Agama DTV Monitoring Solution can be efficiently tailored for fully concurrent and real-time quality monitoring of adaptive bitrate streaming video services across the end-to-end OTT service distribution . It is ideal for all TV operators moving to multiscreen offerings , allowing OTT services to be monitored together with for instance traditional IPTV and cable TV - all in a single system. Visitors to Agama's stand 179 a t  IP&TV World Forum 2012 in London on March 20-22 can experience live demonstrations of end-to-end TV monitoring set-ups for multiplatform and multiscreen environments.

Emelie Svensson

M arketing Communications Manager

Agama Technologies

emelie.svensson@agama.tv

+46 13 240  330

Agama Technologies provides next generation quality assurance and monitoring solutions for digital TV and video services. As the first company to provide complete and proven end-to-end, multi-metric monitoring solutions, Agama continues to pioneer and innovate. TV operators and service providers worldwide rely on the established Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for systematic improvements of service quality and customer satisfaction, all while reducing operational costs and quality induced churn . Agama Technologies AB is based in Linköping, Sweden, and is privately held. For more information, visit  www.agama.tv .

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