OTT monitoring in the cloud with Telestream and Skyline Communications

This strategic collaboration will enable video-on-demand and cloud-based monitoring in more than 70 global data center locations.

Telestream has begun a strategic collaboration with the Belgian company Skyline Communications. The development initiative focuses on the integration of solutions video monitoring Telestream cloud-based, along with network management, orchestration and operations support solution DataMiner from Skyline.

DataMiner connects with any third-party product, device, and cloud service to provide end-to-end infrastructure management and deployment, service orchestration, and process automation. With this latest initiative, the two companies have integrated the new service Telestream Cloud Stream Monitor to deliver cost-effective, on-demand flexibility to validate and troubleshoot live and on-demand video streaming services around the world.

For the first time, the orchestration DataMiner can be leveraged to automate the deployment of OTT services (on-premises and in the cloud) and monitoring of Telestream content at the same time, with the monitoring system deployed on demand, where needed, in over 70 global cloud locations.

DataMiner uses the Telestream Cloud API to control the dynamic deployment and teardown of monitoring resources to match its ability to control end-to-end video deployments.

Telestream's new cloud capabilities allow users to launch the cloud flow monitoring, on demand, under manual or automatic control of DataMiner. This capability is very valuable for live events, where premium monitoring is essential, but may only be needed for the duration of the event (schedule-aware monitoring).

An additional advantage is that the orchestration del servicio Telestream Cloud Stream Monitor is always aligned with the actual configurations of the OTT service (context-aware monitoring). It also allows for supplemental on-demand geographic troubleshooting, scheduled periods of premium content monitoring as part of live channel programming, or for synthetic testing of HLS or DASH video-on-demand assets anywhere in the world.

Ken Haren, director of product management at Telestream, acknowledges that “we have created a first in this integration, as no other provider has the breadth of cloud support or the comparable scope of functions offered by Telestream's cloud stream monitoring service.”

"The current DataMiner integration can schedule post-CDN monitoring as and when needed, and we are excited about the possibility of expanding this to include contribution (transport stream) monitoring in the near future. There is nothing that competes with Telestream's cloud stream monitoring service when combining contribution and edge," he adds.

By developing this integration, Telestream and Skyline Communications are addressing the challenge of migrating video services to the cloud for live streaming or VoD services. The companies are focused on a dynamic and growing community of service providers, content providers and broadcasters looking to send streams to the cloud for video processing and distribution as OTT streams.

Steven Soenens, vice president of product marketing at Skyline, said: "This is an exciting time for streaming services that leverage the cloud for contribution and distribution. Telestream's new service, combined with the automation provided by DataMiner, offers a truly on-demand deployment, orchestration, monitoring and troubleshooting operating environment, to accommodate the transient nature of video services we are seeing today. We are looking forward to seeing how customers take advantage of the combined solution, including more than 1500 current DataMiner customers.”

New service integration expands Skyline and Telestream monitoring partnership, which already includes Telestream solutions IQ y Prism for waveform analysis and SMPTE ST-2110.