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NEWS/Bridge Technologies Announces New Partnership With TANDBERG Television for IPTV Monitoring Products

(IBC, Amsterdam - 15th September 2008)

Bridge Technologies and TANDBERG Television have entered into a partnership to market the VideoBRIDGE series of IP-Probes for IPTV monitoring. TANDBERG Television will supply VideoBRIDGE installations to broadcasters, telcos, and network operators worldwide, providing the most advanced end-to-end monitoring solution available in the industry.

Bridge Technologies and TANDBERG Television have collaborated to integrate VideoBRIDGE with TANDBERG Television’s nCompass management and monitoring system. The VideoBRIDGE/nCompass system provides a comprehensive set of tools and features including full alarm and event handling and settings backup, all from within nCompass. 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 integrated VideoBRIDGE/nCompass is an excellent example of the benefits end-to-end monitoring can deliver,” says Simen Frostad, Chairman, Bridge Technologies. “We are very pleased that a company with TANDBERG Television’s track record and exceptional reputation will be working with us to bring these products to a new base of customers around the world.”

The award-winning VideoBRIDGE series of probes are innovative 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. With the innovative MEDIA WINDOW (patent pending), the VideoBRIDGE series is at the forefront of IPTV measurement and monitoring technologies.