Simen Frostad, Chairman of Bridge Technologies, announced at the NAB 2023 that the company has upgraded its analytics and monitoring system for media signals, which has been in the market since the company's inception in 2004.
The system allows users to log into their IPTV network to monitor and measure the flow of the video going over an IP network. The device has 100 megabits of interfacing, and can be accessed using a web browser, allowing users to conduct real-time analytics from any location.
Frostad noted that the company had made significant changes since it was launched. "We still do the same things that we did 19 years ago," he smiled, "but some things have changed.
“Technology has evolved, and now it offers HTML5 protemps; and the backend has gone from 100 megabits to 100 gigabits, which is a huge bandwidth increase. We have gone from compressed media to uncompressed media, all the way up to 8k."
The company excels in monitoring and analysing any type of signal, whether it is satellite, terrestrial cable, OTT, IPTV or any form of compressed media in JPEG XS or JPEG 2000.
"When you carry any kind of media over Legacy interfaces or over IP, you need to know what's actually going on, or else you're kind of flying blind," said Frostad. "So, that's our kind of market base."
He stated that the company’s USP (unique selling proposition) of the system is its helpfulness in remote access. "The device can connect to the network from anywhere, even in the room next door or on the other side of the planet," he declared. "It provides full video with full-colour accuracy within a web browser, which means users can take full advantage of all the metrics available.
“The upgraded system offers a solution for users who want to monitor and analyse their media signals remotely. The company's device is particularly useful for people who need to conduct real-time analytics from a remote location.