NEWS/Virgin Media Chooses Bridge Technologies Monitoring



(Oslo, Norway - September 13, 2009)

Virgin Media Chooses Bridge Technologies Monitoring

Bridge Technologies, developer of the first complete satellite-to-set-top-box monitoring solution for digital TV operators, has announced that its VideoBRIDGE system has been selected to provide the monitoring solution for Virgin Media’s digital broadcast TV platform.

Virgin Media will roll out an all-IP broadcast installation at its 54 headends and four core IP sites to complement its existing VOD IP infrastructure. Bridge Technologies will provide the VideoBRIDGE IP probes, servers, and software to ensure comprehensive continuous remote monitoring and fault analysis throughout Virgin Media’s broadcast TV IP infrastructure.  

Simen K. Frostad, chairman, Bridge Technologies, said, “Virgin Media is taking a very progressive approach to investing in an advanced platform that is ready for future developments, with a comprehensive monitoring capacity to ensure extremely good resilience together with a reduction in operational costs.”

“An advanced monitoring solution is a very important part of our evolving infrastructure,” said Alistair Crook, head of TV operations, Virgin Media. “The VideoBRIDGE system is one of the most advanced systems and Bridge Technologies really understood our priorities. Many of the developments they have in the pipeline matched our requirements and the alarm monitoring tool also significantly added to what we were looking for.”

Bridge Technologies’ award-winning VideoBRIDGE series of probes is an innovative industrial platform 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 DVB/ATSC - ETSI TR 101 290, the VideoBRIDGE series offers a complete end-to-end system for the continuous quality assurance of a network. With full support of the RFC4445 standards proposal and the innovative MEDIAWINDOW™ (patented), the VideoBRIDGE series is at the forefront of digital TV measurement and monitoring technologies.