Telestream will present its OptiQ monitoring system at IBC 2019

The new and radically different approach to video monitoring and analytics provides widespread monitoring across all geographies; enables the delivery of fully monetized high-quality channels.

In IBC 2019, Telestream will present its second live service OptiQ. OptiQ Monitor creates greater efficiency in capital and operational expenditures, while ensuring optimal levels of Quality of Service and Quality of Experience for broadcasters, service providers and network operators around the world.

Successfully delivering a high-quality, rights-protected, fully monetized event or channel requires more than just a world-class encoder or packager. It starts with a good understanding of what the broadcaster is delivering through ubiquitous video monitoring and analysis. OptiQ Monitor is aimed at customers who have already established the necessary infrastructure to support their live streaming channels, but do not have monitoring infrastructure, especially post-CDN.

OptiQ as a live services framework is a fusion of all of Telestream's skills around live streaming, workflow, cloud, integrated monitoring, containers and much more. The first application (OptiQ Channel) was presented at NAB with its ultra-fast deployment, fully integrated monitoring and self-healing capabilities. Since Telestream began development, it has become clear that the basis of this channel creation system is an OptiQ framework that allows the creation of multiple different live services to meet different customer needs.

OptiQ Monitor allows users to integrate a superior level of video monitoring without needing to modify anything in your existing supply chain. Building on this through the OptiQ channel, Telestream can provide all the necessary packaging, encoding and ingest environments to help customers create high-quality live channels quickly and easily.

A key feature of the OptiQ framework is the ability to deploy Telestream technology in any public cloud data center. Telestream now has the ability with OptiQ Monitor to select any cloud data centers, or as many as needed, and specify the types of monitoring probes that customers want to introduce into those data centers. The system architect then clicks 'go' and the entire monitoring network is automatically built to perform robust QoS and QoE monitoring of a customer's live streaming channels, even if they are not using the OptiQ channel to create those channels.

This solution allows users to observe the performance of their CDNs in multiple geographies. Additionally, they can monitor the performance of video encoders across your entire distribution network. If this performance is not optimal, Telestream has a fast and cost-effective solution. OptiQ Channel will deliver robust and efficient live streaming channels as a service in a completely cloud-deployed manner.

Kenneth Haren, director of OptiQ products at Telestream, highlights that "OptiQ Monitor allows you to successfully deliver channels in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner. Without effective monitoring you don't have a channel. If you don't monitor extensively and have granular visibility into the channel across all the geographies you serve, and the devices and platforms you seek to leverage, then you can't be sure you're delivering a high-quality channel. Having good visibility into the health of a channel focuses on the ability to monitor and analyze video data."