In Broadcast - August 2017 - 46

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 8 | August 2017

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Viaccess-Orca Smarter Safer

t IBC2017, Viaccess-Orca (VO) will
demonstrate its latest innovations
that help shape a smarter and safer TV
experience. VO's player solution will
also be showcased at Squadeo's booth.
Key demos will include: content
protection innovations for multiscreen
environments; and data analytics and
monetisation of the TV experience.
VO's multi-DRM suite is one of the
most powerful solutions on the market,
offering pay-TV operators flexible
and scalable possibilities for securing
premium content on any device and
in any delivery format. With the recent
acquisition of Squadeo's multimedia
QuickPlayer, VO allows operators to
securely deliver live and VOD content
on PC, Mac, and connected mobile
devices including Android and
iOS. VO's Connected Sentinel
multi-DRM backend platform is
currently in use by more than
30 leading operators around the
world and has been successfully
deployed on 4K STBs for IPTV
offerings.
The
real-time
breach
detection capabilities of VO's

Connected Sentinel DRM,
powered by state-of-theart
machine
learning
algorithms,
constitute
a natural addition to
VO's content protection
product portfolio. VO
will demonstrate realtime actionable insights
that a content security Viaccess-Orca - TV as a Service
analyst can extract from the analytics on the web with real KPIs.
console of the Connected Sentinel DRM
VO will demonstrate advanced
solution.
analytics and monetisation capabilities
VO will showcase a new-generation for its end-to-end, cloud-based TV
solution for anti-piracy protection that Platform as a Service (TVaaS). New
has already garnered a lot of interest improvements
include:
Analytics
among operators. The solution offers dashboards; Search analysis tool;
a set of unique features that allows Advertising functionality.
operators to combat illegal streaming
VO will show various strategies for
extracting actionable insights from
Virtual Arena
TV data, via predictive analytics.
This ensures that operators can
deliver a more personalised
TV experience to subscribers
on any device, streamline their
content strategy, and ultimately
pave the way to TV audience
monetisation. A joint demo with
Neotion, leading supplier of CAM,

Interra's End-to-End
QC & Monitoring Solutions

t IBC2017, Interra Systems will
showcase its comprehensive
approach to QC and monitoring.
Interra Systems' enterprise-class,
end-to-end solution leads the industry
in enabling the delivery of flawless
video on every device, in the most
efficient and cost-effective manner
possible. New features that will be
displayed include exhaustive QC
checks, ABR stream validation, realtime QoE measurements, live content
monitoring, and deep-dive compressed
stream analysis.
Widely adopted and trusted by
operators in the global broadcast,
cable, telco, satellite, IPTV, overthe-top (OTT), and post-production
markets, Interra Systems' solutions are
changing the quality of online video
and audio.
Interra Systems will showcase hybrid
capabilities for its BATON QC solution.
Highlights of the BATON hybrid QC
solution include: a unified hybrid QC
platform; wide support for new codecs

and formats; expanded
Interra Systems
audio language detection
BATON QC
support for accurate multilanguage auto-detection
capability for subtitles
and closed-caption files
with new multi-language
checks of audio tracks;
HDR quality checks, data
verification checks, PSE
correction
and
black
frame removal; enhanced
loudness detection and
correction using BATON's integrated track trends and anomalies in the
media player, which now displays media content, optimising decisiondetailed loudness graphs. Any non- making and QC operations.
conformance is reported as an error
Interra Systems will demonstrate
and can be corrected via the BATON new additions to its ORION monitoring
Content Corrector.
solutions family. ORION-OTT is one of
Interra Systems' BATON+ QC and the industry's first software-based OTT
analysis solution optimises the QC solutions for real-time monitoring of
process by allowing users to define ABR content for multiscreen service
workflows representing the stages delivery over unmanaged networks.
through which media content flows in In addition, Interra Systems will
a facility. New data analysis features showcase its ORION real-time content
for BATON+ allow users to effectively monitoring and video analysis system.

will highlight the benefits of
audience measurement for
building better content offers
for subscribers.
VO
will
showcase
its
Virtual Arena solution for
360-degree virtual reality (VR)
premium video management,
interactivity,
and
secure
playback. Following VO's recent
acquisition of Squadeo, Virtual Arena
customers will be able to leverage
the robust QuickPlayer playback
infrastructure to deliver both live and
on-demand 360-degree streamed
video content.
Attendees will see an outstanding VR
experience featuring sweeping views
of 360-degree content at the highest
resolution levels (4K and higher). A
new app and multi-camera view will
be highlighted, along with unseen
sports content. Advanced capabilities,
such as data collection via multiple
sensors, extraction of insights, and
targeted advertising, enables service
providers to drive viewer engagement
and create data-driven monetisation
opportunities.

Highlights
include:
Major
performance improvements in terms
of number of services that can be
monitored on a single machine and
performance scaling on multi-CPU
systems; ORION-OTT offers wider
support for ABR content and DRM,
while providing extended
monitoring
features
and
checks.
Support
for
Microsoft
Smooth
Streaming; Dolby AC3/
EAC3; HEVC; WebVTT,
TTML
captions,
and
more will be showcased.
ORION real-time content
monitoring solution offers
new enterprise features
including REST APIs for
exporting closed captions,
EBP and IGMP data in XML format;
system control; and configuration.
Interra Systems will demonstrate
its VEGA media analysis solution for
standards compliance, debug, and
interoperability of encoded streams.
Recent updates to the VEGA family
include in-depth analysis of ABR
formats; support for Windows 10; the
latest HEVC HM reference code; HEVC
interlaced streams; VP9 streams
(4:2:2, 4:4:4); PCAP streams; Dolby
AC-4 audio; and AVS Plus video.

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