Netplus Picks Agama

COLOGNE, Germany -- Agama Technologies, the DTV quality assurance expert, today announces that netplus.ch SA, a triple-play service provider owned by a group of cable operators in Switzerland, has deployed a powerful service monitoring solution from Agama in its CATV head-end. With continuous and in-depth real-time monitoring of all services, netplus is equipped for rapid problem discovery and structured impact and root cause analysis, all to ensure what leaves the head-end is the best is can be.

"We were searching for a head-end monitoring solution able to efficiently detect problems related to the quality of our DVB streams in real-time, all the way down to content related issues such as macroblocking and black screen, and with the crucial possibility to access the monitoring history to identify bad sources and intermittent problems," says Romain Lonfat, Head of iTV Group at netplus.ch. "Agama's proven solution offered us a cost and space efficient deployment with high channel density per monitoring probe, and a future proof scalability. It also showed technology superiority, with characteristics including continuous in-depth video and audio analysis to detect all sorts of perturbations, automatic triggered recording of problematic channels for offline troubleshooting, real-time streaming of any monitored channel to our 24/7 remote support team, easy-to-use and comprehensive web based GUI, to mention a few."

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