Satnews Daily
September 10th, 2013

Agama Technologies + Sky—End-To-End Video Chain Supervision + IBC2013 Showcase (Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest—Monitoring)


[SatNews] Agama Technologies has been contracted by British Sky Broadcasting Limited (Sky), the largest payTV broadcaster in Britain and Ireland with well over 10 million customers, to provide its DTV Monitoring Solution for TV service quality assurance.

Sky is the UK and Ireland's leading home entertainment and communications company. It is also the UK's biggest investor in television content, investing more than £2.5bn a year in channels such as Sky1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Sky Sports, Sky Movies and Sky News. In line with its commitment to offering customers a great choice of high-quality content, the broadcaster has selected to deploy Agama's DTV Monitoring Solution for service assurance and operational excellence in its multi-platform video delivery.

The Agama DTV Monitoring Solution is an industry-leading solution for continuous and real-time monitoring and QA of the end-to-end video delivery chain. It provides full transparency of the service distribution from pixel level in the head-end to what is actually experienced by each individual viewer. Trusted by TV operators worldwide, the solution supports business processes with actionable insights that help to proactively manage service quality and customer satisfaction, whilst lowering OPEX and improving customer retention. Ultimately, this empowers TV businesses with accelerated service growth and profitability, as well as with strengthened customer loyalty.

  Agama is showcasing its complete solution for end-to-end video service assurance at IBC2013 in Amsterdam on September 13-17. For a live demonstration of cutting edge QA for IP, cable and OTT video services and to learn more about the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution, visit stand 4.A71.