Bridge Technologies… Issues Insight (Training)

[SatBroadcasting(tm)] Bridge Technologies has announced the next in its series of training courses designed to help digital and media TV operators understand and master monitoring and service quality control issues.

The course will be held in Oslo on December 7 and 8, and will equip operators with a full understanding of key factors such as monitoring MPEG-2 transport streams, PSI, and DVB SI in relation to the open industry standards ETSI TR 101290 and ETSI TS 102 034. The BridgeTech Academy is headed by Randouth Tillery, a veteran of digital and interactive TV operations management at Telenor, Zonavi, and Canal Digital. The courses draw on the expertise gathered by Bridge Technologies staff through decades at the front line of digital media development, and long experience of real-world commercial use of IP in broadcasting and interactive media delivery. The BridgeTech Academy provides technical personnel with the multidisciplinary operational expertise necessary for a complete understanding of the entire digital TV delivery chain and the VideoBRIDGE advanced monitoring environment. Training courses are provided at Bridge Technologies’ Oslo headquarters using a complete on-site transmission chain created for training and testing, or by arrangement at the operator’s facility. For more information regarding the training session, email [email protected].

The VideoBRIDGE system is the first true headend to set-top box monitoring solution available in the industry and includes a full range of IP probes for analysis at any point in the chain from satellite to set-top box. The award-winning VideoBRIDGE series of probes offers an innovative approach to monitoring and analysis of 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 innovative, patented MediaWindow, the VideoBRIDGE series is at the forefront of digital TV measurement, monitoring, and analysis technologies.