BRIDGE Technologies / news / APPEAR TV and BRIDGE Technologies joint effort in network monitoring

"The ability to proactively follow a media stream from creation to delivery is critical for widespread IP transport network adoption," states Carl Walter Holst, CEO, Appear TV. "Together with BRIDGE Technologies we now have the technology to provide this to operators today, thereby minimizing service disruption and consequently reducing customer churn."

The VBC Server was first shown in 2005 and enables advanced correlation between different locations for easy understanding media flow and rapid trouble shooting. With a VBC Server deployment, monitoring of all devices in a media chain is now possible together with advanced relative measurement. Together with the MDI Media Window (pat.-pending) the VBC Server gives easy access to both real-time data and historical occurrences, and provides network-centric understanding of media flow with easy pinpointing of errors for fast trouble shooting in operational networks.

"Cooperation with Appear TV has been very rewarding," BRIDGE Technology President, Simen K. Frostad openly admits. "They display a thorough understanding of the importance for continuous monitoring of IP network behavior. The implementation of the DeCore series into the VBC architecture has been swift. We have great expectations for this joint effort towards standardization."

BRIDGE Technologies Designs, develops and manufactures advanced measurement and monitoring solutions for the IPTV industry. The award winning VideoBRIDGE series provides innovative industrial platforms for the converging services employing stream-based IP-packets. Compatible with all major stream-based industrial standards such as; MPEG2, 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. With full support of the MDI standards proposal and the innovative MDI Media Window (patent pending) the VideoBRIDGE series is at the forefront of IPTV measurement and monitoring technologies.

BRIDGE Technologies Co. is based in Oslo, Norway. Its staff is composed of specialists from the Scandinavian Broadcast and Telecom industries and the company has worldwide sales operations through business partners in the European, US and Asian markets. BRIDGE Technologies web address is www.BRIDGE Technologies.tv

Appear TV is a privately held company based in Oslo, Norway. AppearTV provide carrier grade hardware that enables operators to deliver professional quality video to its customers. The foundation of the company is based on delivering unique products that opens up new opportunities for video distribution. All employees are dedicated to quality and service with an emphasis on developing products offering peace of mind in operation.

The Appear TV philosophy is to develop products in close partnership with customers. Through an operator oriented design Appear TV is focused on providing products and solutions that help service providers gain a competitive edge. For more information please visit www.appeartv.com