IneoQuest Technologies, has announced its partnership with Verimatrix, securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe.
With this partnership, IneoQuest has integrated the Verimatrix ViewRight® Web security client into the latest release of its award winning adaptive bitrate (ABR) video monitoring probe, IQDialogue ASM, expanding its monitoring capabilities for multi-screen and over-the-top (OTT) video services.
Through this integration with Verimatrix, IneoQuest becomes the commercial video analytics and service assurance provider offering the ability test, monitor and validate the quality of conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM)-protected video streams in a multi-screen/OTT environment. Authenticated IQDialogue devices are able to receive, decrypt and validate ABR video streams protected by the widely adopted Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for Internet TV security solution. The implementation of ViewRight Web into release 3.1 of IQDialogue ASM provides quality of experience (QoE) monitoring to compare asset performance throughout the content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure.
The Verimatrix ViewRight Web client is a robust package of portable code that implements the VCAS content security functions in client devices enabled for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and ABR streaming video services. It is an integral component of the VCAS for Internet TV solution.
“As we searched for ways to simplify the quality verification of protected content for our customers, collaboration with an industry leader was an obvious imperative. Verimatrix quickly landed on the top of our collaborator list,” said Calvin Harrison, president and CEO at IneoQuest. “Verimatrix places a high priority on consistent service quality and we applaud their efforts to ensure optimum customer experience while also ensuring revenue security. We are excited about this partnership’s potential to improve the viewer experience of protected, CDN-delivered video”
Verimatrix is the revenue security vendor to integrate its technology into a video quality assurance and monitoring solution, offering customers a comprehensive solution for both protected and open video content. Service providers using Verimatrix now exclusively have the ability to verify, monitor, and validate protected adaptive video assets throughout the complex distribution network infrastructures that have evolved in the OTT world.
“Our collaboration with IneoQuest offers our joint customers a substantially more complete solution in terms of monitoring, test and optimisation of secure video streaming services,” said Steve Oetegenn, president, Verimatrix. “Our integrated solution enables operators to not only validate encrypted streams but to better understand the video within those streams for enhanced QoE and more robust revenue protection.”
