WITBE presents at IPTV Worldforum Asia, shows innovative technology for HDTV Services Monitoring. ( 24.11.2008 | 15:21:43 ) Press Release Witbe continues an international deployment of its full HD monitoring solution worldwide. This innovative technology has been chosen and recognized by major telecom operators, equipment manufacturers and IPTV platforms integrators. Using a Quality of Experience (QoE) methodology, Witbe develops an innovative approach to evaluate the true delivered quality to the end user, in real time and real environments. By merging and correlating traditional QoS metrics and QoE indicators, Witbe helps operators in their day to day supervision of their infrastructure and services and aids them in making effective technological choices. For video services, QoE indicators includes unique information about end to end availability, real zapping time (in addition to backbone (IGMP) zapping time), non reference video quality analysis using a predictive Mean Opinion Score (MOS), and MPEG TS analysis correlation. “In Asia, Chungwa and Hanaro selects us for their IPTV rollout, and our close relation with our customers helps us to deliver one of the most advanced monitoring technologies in the world as an answer to the convergence challenge” says Jean Michel Planche, chairman and founder of Witbe. Recognized as an IP and next-generation telecommunications expert, Jean Michel Planche has over 20 years of internet experience in technology development, products and business. He will speak at IPTV Worldforum Asia at the conference on “What about quality of experience: measuring the value and marketing the benefits” on December 4, at 2.40pm. Recently Jean Michel Planche is designed to work in a commission within French government about plan for the development of digital economy. In 1989, he created his first company, Apysoft, dedicated to software development in an open system. In 1991, he founded the first Internet operator in France, Oleane, dedicated to the enterprise market. Within 5 years, it became the largest national operator. In 1998, Oleane joined forces with the Orange group to operate at an international level. In 2000, Jean Michel Planche left the Orange group to create Witbe, which is aimed at addressing the next big picture: Quality of Experience monitoring. Witbe develops new technology responding to the supervision & monitoring challenges in a new IP-convergent world. Its scalable products are used by a wide range of companies: corporations, and operators including several Tier 1. Recognized as an expert on innovation, Jean Michel Planche is active in various organisations to advance internet development and entrepreneurship in France. About Witbe N-play usages such as watching TV, using VoD services, making phone calls or accessing the internet via landline or mobile networks have revolutionized the way operators work and their areas of responsibility. To respond to the new challenge of tests and end-to-end service monitoring, since 2000, Witbe has been developing an innovative approach to measuring the actual quality delivered: Quality of Experience monitoring (QoE). Witbe’s unique technology provides indicators of perceived quality measured by its robots, which continuously reproduce user behaviour. Witbe, thanks to its MOS algorithms qualifying real-time image and sound quality from the STB, has been regarded since 2004 as the reference for IPTV services monitoring. Witbe works with the main operators throughout the whole word: Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Marocco, the UK, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan amongst others. Information: www.witbe.net