We are excited to announce our new ABR Stream Analysis technology today. Officially debuting at the 2024 NAB Show, Witbe’s ABR Stream Analysis technology enhances the powerful monitoring capabilities of Witbe’s Witbox+ by analyzing the requests between a video app being tested and the network it’s running on. This technology supplies providers with additional data on how a user’s experience watching video is affected by the Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) stream.
Witbe’s technology tests and monitors real, physical devices to measure user quality of experience and identify video issues. The Witbox+ allows teams to monitor their service while it is running on any real device, including smart TVs and mobile devices. Witbe’s ABR Stream Analysis technology offers providers an additional level of monitoring through the network layer. It can automatically verify that any streaming asset’s video profiles are available, as well as its audio and subtitle tracks.
“Witbe’s ABR Stream Analysis technology was developed alongside our new Ad Monitoring and Matching technology as the natural next step in our mission to help service providers accurately test and monitor their video offerings,” commented Mathieu Planche, CEO at Witbe. “I am excited to launch this innovative technology and further expand the monitoring capabilities of the Witbox+, the most powerful automated testing device on the market.”
Witbe’s ABR Stream Analysis technology is now available. It can be purchased as a software addition to the Witbox+, or as a separate dedicated device in the WitboxABR, a new entry in Witbe’s hardware line. The WitboxABR allows teams to fully harness the new ABR Stream Analysis technology and perform their network tests at scale, running thousands of sessions simultaneously, along with monitoring for CDN errors and SCTE-35 cues.