Caton taps TAG Video Systems to monitor live transmissions

TAG VideoTAG Video Systems has been selected by IP network transport solutions company Caton Technology to supply its solutions for monitoring, probing and data driven analytics through its Caton Cloud Alliance.

Caton provides IP transmission services, giving broadcasters and content owners a reliable means of transporting live content to viewers globally. The Caton Cloud Alliance programme encourages third parties to add value and functionality to live transmissions by tightly integrating with Caton Cloud through its APIs.

The Media XStream service includes providing connectivity through the Caton Cloud, by using AI-based intelligent routing, which provides unparalleled reliability of six nines or better. As part of the service, Caton provides full visibility of the network metrics so engineers can see the paths and the capacities used.

According to Caton, the partnership with TAG will offer a flexible multiviewer solution which can accept signals from multiple points and is cloud-native, but also incorporates the new TAG Content Matching Technology which provides a means of comparing any point in the workflow against a user-defined reference.

Michael Yang, senior VP at Caton Technology said, “We extend our services using published APIs, and through the Caton Cloud Alliance we make it very easy to integrate additional services upstream and downstream. Perceived signal quality is obviously of vital importance to our users, which is why we welcome TAG Video Systems as our first technology partner.”

Michael Demb, VP product strategy at TAG Video Systems, added, “We have a comprehensive suite of solutions for monitoring, probing and data driven analytics, which further inform the visual and audible monitoring through our multiviewer displays and system UI. It is a natural fit for Caton and its transformational approach to IP content delivery, and we look forward to continuing collaboration and more business success.”

Caton Technology and TAG Video Systems are in the process of working with broadcasters and content owners on implementing video and audio monitoring alongside network monitoring, as part of the service-based Media XStream offering.

Caton will demonstrate how the TAG Video Systems multiviewers can be integrated to monitor audio and video quality at the destination IBC in RAI Amsterdam in September.

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