Bridge Intros Monitoring App for iPhone

Bridge Technologies has launched PocketProbe, an iPhone app designed to enable analysis of real network performance of streaming media in a tool that technical staff can carry anywhere.Available now from Apple's App Store, PocketProbe is designed to extend both the existing capabilities the company's digital media monitoring hardware probes and the monitoring software environment. It contains the same OTT Engine found in the company's VB1, VB2 and 10G VB3 series digital media monitoring probes for analysis of HTTP variable bitrate streams.PocketProbe is available in two versions. The free application is designed to validate five HLS streams in round-robin mode, provide analysis and manifest consistency alarms, play back media in the various profile bitrates, and graphically display the actual chunk download patterns and bitrates. The full version adds the ability to validate HDS and SmoothStream manifest files and store 25 streams with all profiles.