At IBC in Amsterdam, S3 Group has introduced and is demonstrating StormTest Warning Center as part of its end-to-end service validation portfolio. Warning Center is a cloud-based video service monitoring and validation platform for video services on devices across the network.
Warning Center is designed to work synergistically with the company's StormTest Development Center video test automation platform. Whereas Development Center is designed primarily to test devices and services in lab environments, Warning Center is intended to provide ongoing feedback from devices and services within a live network. Using the Warning Center portal, operators can monitor real-time performance and service readiness thresholds, and interact remotely with set-top boxes deployed in the network.
It's designed to provide continuous, automated monitoring of service availability and performance, including: linear TV services, on-demand services, interactive menus, set-top box applications and EPG validity. Customers can apply their own pre-defined thresholds for alerts, use real-time analytics to make "big data" driven business decisions, and reduce mean-time-to-diagnose and mean-time-to-repair through remote access to network monitoring nodes.
