Agama, VisualOn Partner To Improve OTT

Agama Technologies, a specialist in video service quality and customer experience, and VisualOn Inc., a multimedia software company that enables scalable, cross-platform media playback for global streaming media brands, are partnering to deliver a pre-integrated player SDK solution for efficient video service quality assurance for over-the-top providers.

The pre-integration of Agama’s industry-leading video service assurance solution with VisualOn’s cross platform, multi-media framework provides real-time 24/7 monitoring, assurance and analytics technology into VisualOn-powered devices. This integration simplifies the process for operators wanting to ensure a high-quality viewing experience of OTT media content on a wide variety of connected devices, anytime and anywhere. 

 “Agama and VisualOn have joined forces to deliver a pre-integrated offering with customer experience as the focus,” said Yang Cai, CEO of VisualOn. “VisualOn’s deep client analytics combined with Agama’s innovative quality assurance and analytics technologies provides a platform for OTT operators to effectively ensure the quality of their service delivery.” 

“We are delighted to be partnering with a leading vendor such as VisualOn to enable a pre-integration with our solution,” says Mikael Dahlgren, CEO of Agama Technologies. “In today’s fast-moving OTT environment, it is important to maintain efficiency when rolling out new services by shortening the integration time and minimising the risk within projects”.  

Agama’s OTT Service Assurance solution enables operators to gain insights into the performance of their video services. The solution provides both an aggregated overview and fine-grained details about each and every device, in the home or on the go.

The Agama solution has a proven scalability of many millions of devices and supports operators in understanding the quality of experience of millions of end users. The solution supports technical operations, service management and development, as well as customer care and media consumption analytics.  

VisualOn’s OnStream MediaPlayer+ (OSMP+) is a multimedia player development kit, enabling cross-platform content delivery and playback on connected devices, including mobile handsets, tablets, desktops, laptops, set-top boxes and smart TVs. OSMP+ enables the development of both enterprise and consumer-grade applications to meet the latest trends in high-quality audio-video streaming.

It allows seamless playback across multiple hardware architecture and platforms, and incorporates the most advanced video and audio decoding technologies to support many industry standard formats, including HEVC (H.265), H.264, AAC and many others.

It also supports most adaptive streaming protocols and closed captioning/subtitle formats. VisualOn’s analytics and AdFlow solutions extend and enable QOS, Monetization, and tracking.

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