Qligent to launch reduced overhead OTT monitoring
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 03 March 2020

OTT monitoring, visualisation and delivery analytics solutions provider Qligent is to use the forthcoming NAB 2020 to launch a new solution designed to eliminate the expense and maintenance of a permanent monitoring infrastructure for live-streamed events.

The new Qligent’s Dynamic OTT Monitoring solution will package all of the QoS, QoE and compliance monitoring capabilities of Qligent’s flagship Vision system for temporary services in the cloud, giving service providers what it claims will be a ‘friendly’ pricing model and lightweight monitoring infrastructure that turns on and off as needed.

The dynamically-fashioned instance is said to enable the support of live events with minimal notice, connecting the service provider’s infrastructure with a Qligent Vision system in the cloud through a secure URL. Customers get the same benefits as 24/7 Vision users, monitoring QoS-related transport and physical streams, QoE-related issues (lack of signal, video freeze, missing audio) and compliance-related matters, such as audio loudness and closed captioning.

Measurement and compliance results and recordings will be available for customers after the event for a defined period of time – with no additional costs associated as the probing cloud instances have been turned off.

Qligent regards its new offering as capable of ‘revolutionising’ the live event universe of sports, concerts and other performances. “It’s special and unique because it brings all of the premium monitoring and analysis features that our 24/7 broadcast and MVPD customers rely on worldwide, at an hourly rate,” noted Qligent director of sales John Shoemaker. “It’s a paradigm-shifting model that will bring substantial cost savings of 50% or more to our live-event customers that don’t require, or simply can’t afford, a permanent monitoring system. And, it entirely removes the need for on-premise infrastructure.”