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Witbe OTT Monitoring
Technologies for
Broadcasters
Measure and improve end-users' Quality of Experience, in a scalable, non-intrusive manner...

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itbe's
OTT
monitoring
technologies aim to give any
broadcaster a true monitoring system
over unmanaged delivery networks.
Through the use of active and networkagnostic Witbe Robots, and the latest
Witbe Central System innovations,
Witbe provides broadcasters with deep
knowledge about the end-users' Quality
of Experience on their OTT services.
Witbe technologies do more than
revealing the true impact of CDN
servers' issues on OTT's QoE with
Witbe Smartping. They also give a realtime, global, and meaningful view of
OTT delivery infrastructure with Witbe
Earth. Completed by an easy-to-use
administration platform and plug-andplay Robots (appliances or on virtual
machines), Witbe technologies allow
broadcasters to quickly scale up their
control on their video services' quality.

services at the origin, at CDNs edges,
or after any consumer broadband line,
to provide a large ABR monitoring
coverage, including over Wi-Fi or
4G-LTE.
At the origin servers, Witbe Robots
control the availability of all streams
- manifest files, encryption keys, and
chunks presence. Then, at CDN edges,
Witbe Robots check the performance
of the streams, ensuring that the
chunks can be downloaded correctly.
They proactively detect rebuffering
risks, content loop, and black and
frozen screen issues. They perform
active requests of video streams as
a real end-user would do using any
multiscreen application, giving them
the ability to support the most popular
ABR streaming formats, including
Adobe HDS, Apple HLS, Microsoft
Smooth Streaming, and MPEG-DASH.

OTT Services: What Truly
Matters is the End-Users'
Quality of Experience
Witbe's OTT monitoring technologies
are network-agnostic - they're built
on the Witbe Robots, automated
interactive test appliances which
do not interfere with network
performance. Witbe Robots are
designed to monitor availability and
performance of Adaptive Bitrate
(ABR) assets in real time with active
requests, acting as real end-users
would do. Witbe Robots, as appliances
or virtual machines, can
monitor
OTT

Witbe Smartping: Map the
Impossible, Locate Bottlenecks
Witbe's OTT monitoring technologies
help prevent end-user complaints
through two unique algorithms: the
Witbe Smart Alerting System and the
Witbe Smartping. The Smart Alerting
System, a double-checking alerting
algorithm embedded in Witbe Robots,
proactively detects any relevant
delivery interruption at the critical
nodes. Acting alongside it, the Witbe
Smartping maps the impossible.
It locates the bottlenecks in your
delivery chain without interfering
with it, being network-agnostic and
imperceptible. These capabilities show
broadcasters the network routes taken
for their unmanaged OTT service
delivery, locating the critical nodes
in the delivery infrastructure,
and
providing
them
with
impact analysis on the quality
delivered. By pinpointing the
defective CDN servers' routes,
Witbe Smartping locates
the bottlenecks in your
delivery chain without
interfering with it

Witbe Earth shows the delivery chain
on one screen

broadcasters can now enforce their
SLAs with third parties, without
owning the whole delivery networks.
Witbe Earth: All Your Delivery
Chain on One Screen
Continuous
CDN
servers'
performance supervision is provided
by the Witbe Portal, a web-based
dashboard. It aggregates the data from
the Robots, on a single interface, with
a unique cross-reference data feature
through
intelligible
infographics
(graphs, pie charts, etc.). This
feature allows broadcasters to create
real knowledge on various levels:
infrastructure; quality; marketing, etc.
Furthermore, any severe situation can
be quickly detected using Witbe Earth.
It displays, on one screen, a real-time
tracking on CDN servers' performance,
availability, and workload around the
world, from a top point-of-view and
in real-time. Broadcasters can now
detect service downtime instantly,
and become fully aware of their OTT
delivery chain.

About Witbe
Witbe offers an award winning
approach to ensure the Quality of
Experience actually being delivered
to the end-users of any interactive
service (telephony, video, Web, etc),
on any device (PC, smartphone, settop box, etc), and over any type of
network (fixed, mobile, OTT, etc).
Leading innovations in the QoE
industry, Witbe technologies have
already been adopted by over 300
clients in 45 countries. National
telecoms operators, cable operators,
broadcasters, video content providers,
set-top boxes manufacturers and iOS/
Android apps developers, all rely on
Witbe's measurements.
Witbe was founded in 2000 and has
offices in Paris, New York, Montréal
and Singapore.
Shortly after its successful Stock
Exchange introduction on Alternext
Paris last April, Witbe announced the
opening of new offices in Denver.
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