IBC: Interra Systems To Offer Innovations To Orion Monitoring Suite

Interra Systems, a provider of end-to-end quality assurance solutions to the digital media industry, today announced “significant updates” to its Orion content monitoring suite, which provides monitoring of linear/IP and live/VOD streaming content. The latest enhancements, it says, “are designed to meet the evolving needs of media companies, with a particular focus on improving the quality of OTT streaming.”

Anupama Anantharaman, Interra vice president, product management, says: “Our passion for video quality, innovation, and responsiveness to industry needs drives us to continuously enhance the Orion family. We have consistently improved the Orion monitoring platform by adding features and intelligence to ensure better monitoring status and provide root cause analysis for faster troubleshooting, and proactive measures that minimize quality-related issues. We’re excited to show our customers at IBC 2024 how these latest enhancements not only meet the evolving requirements of OTT content delivery but also set new standards for monitoring efficiency and reliability.”

Orion now offers comprehensive support for the IPv6 protocol, “ensuring robust and future-proof monitoring capabilities.” Another feature is the Orion suite’s smart framework that has been developed for “efficient root-cause analysis, allowing faster identification and resolution of issues to ensure uninterrupted streaming quality.”

Additionally, Orion now includes end-to-end ad insertion monitoring, including a comparison of externally supplied ad scheduling information with dynamic ad insertion (DAI) markers received in the content and alerts for DAI marker propagation issues in the media workflow. The latest version of Orion also features “the industry’s first all-frame decoding and deep-dive analysis for high-priority channels,” it says.

Orion provides automated alerting and quality status reports for group-level KPIs. Additional enhancements to Orion include support for Docker-based installations to simplify deployment and management. The product suite also offers checks for low latency affecting the viewer experience, along with improved combinational checks for detection of freeze/black with or without audio silence.

Interra will demonstrate the latest evolution of its Orion product suite at IBC 2024 in the Amsterdam RAI Convention Center, Sept. 13-16, Stand 7.C11.