Handle More. Be Less Busy. Know Exactly What Your Viewers Will See

VIDEO ON DEMAND | QUALITY CONTROL Handle more. Be less busy. Know exactly what your viewers will see.

Evaluate more titles & more encodes with the fastest, most comprehensive VOD MONITOR tool in the business. Deliver the best on-demand viewing experiences.

> Automated quality control from ingest, gatekeeping, compliance and distribution to playout*. > Reliably validate high volumes of file-based video content by viewer device, title and resolution. > Ensure delivered content meets viewer-acceptable and studio-acceptable quality thresholds. > Compare, evaluate and optimize profiles, configurations and parameters for the best encoders, transcoders, packagers, CDNs and players.

GATE GATE GATE

CONTENT ENCODER TRANSCODER PACKAGER ORIGIN DELIVERY VOD NETWORK CONSUMER PREMISE EQUIPMENT

SMART MONITOR MODULES VOD_MONITOR_SC VOD_MONITOR_EN VOD_MONITOR_TR VOD_MONITOR_PA* VOD_MONITOR_OR* VOD_MONITOR_CDN* VOD_MONITOR_API* VOD_MONITOR_HDMI*

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VIEWER INTELLIGENCE™ to every stage > Visualize your file processing pipeline—queued, processing, failures, and successes based on your thresholds. HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM > Easily set job priority with jump-the-queue functionality. BIG DATA ANALYTICS > Process large files and more files faster. Computationally ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE efficient software runs SD 15x faster than real time, HD 5x MACHINE LEARNING real time and 4K in real time. DEVICE & VIEWING CONDITIONS > Integrate with existing workflows via RESTful API.

Deliver TV people love. As intended. On their terms.

One comprehensive tool The human visual system in software - “True” QoE > Monitor video content (Quality-of-Experience QoE), > Algorithms replicating the complex biological, neural and transmission (Quality-of-Service QoS), and psychological processes to effectively see as humans do. container (Quality-of-Delivery QoD). Frontal Lobe Parietal Lobe QoS (How the content is packaged and sent) QoE (What the viewer sees) Occipital Lobe

QoD (What gets delivered) Motion (V3a) LGN Form (V3) Relays signals (V2) Catalogs input (V1) > Modular deployment allows you to augment existing Relays signals (VP) solutions, deploy a standalone module or install Color & Form (V4) end-to-end. Motion (V5)

> Start with one. Easily add more. Each smart module Temporal Lobe Video Visual Radiation is built with viewer intelligence & connectedness. Cerebellum > The more you add, the smarter your workﬂow gets. Stop maintaining disparate tools and incomplete video quality metrics.

VIEWER INTELLIGENCE™ TO DELIVER THE ULTIMATE VIEWING EXPERIENCE™ Work smart. Actionable ingest to playout. ONE UNIFIED DASHBOARD. ONE ‘DIG-DEEP’ INTERFACE.

> MEASURE: Know exactly what every subscriber is seeing > CONTENT ACQUISITION: Meet SLA with content > CAPITAL: Maximize your existing VOD architecture. on every device. Everywhere. Align customer experience providers using a viewer quality score trusted by top > Intelligently consume big data from the exponential with viewer expectations and build brand loyalty. studios, the Television Academy, and the American BIG DATA: number of probes (thousands of services to hundreds of Society of Cinematographers. > MAXIMIZE: Increase volumes of video-content thousands of hub outputs) from source to player. processed. Reliably adjust viewer quality thresholds > ADVERTISING: Meet SLA with advertisers. > Make informed decisions on capital spends by program, device, and audience. STRATEGIC: > REGULATORY: Comply with regulatory requirements and strategic relationships. > MONETIZE: Make every bit count. Quickly evaluate the (CC and audio loudness). best proﬁles. Store and send only what’s needed and realize bandwidth savings of 25-40%.

Manage and automate your queues like never before.

Technology built for the explosion of video and at-scale data networks.

REVOLUTIONARY ADVANCE TO SSIMPLUS NO COMPROMISE

“SSIMWAVE’s measurement “Measurement is useful. “Achieve real-world standard represents a Unless you’re busy bandwidth reductions of generational breakthrough measuring what’s easy 25-40% whilst maintaining in the video industry.” as opposed to what’s a premium viewing important.” experience.” THE TELEVISION ACADEMY 67TH EMMY AWARDS DR. ABDUL REHMAN, CEO SSIMWAVE PAUL TURNER, VP OF ENTERPRISE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, TELESTREAM PROFESSOR ZHOU WANG, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

67TH PRIMETIME ENGINEERING EMMY® AWARD WINNER Deliver the same viewing experience and compound up to 80% in bandwidth savings. VOD MONITOR Evaluate per-title, per-resolution and per-device at every stage of your workﬂow. Unique features and advantages

100 > Built with SSIMPLUS™—10x faster and 49% more accurate A) CONTENT ADAPTIVE (per Title) CONTENT ADAPTIVE (per Title) Title 2/1080p/TV than Netflix’s VMAF and as fast as PSNR. 95 Title 1/1080p/TV Content (Title 1) 3.10 1080p Mbs Same viewer 4.00 Mbs > Supports the latest industry formats including 4K, 90 experience 4.00 QoE score: 90 HDR and VP9, weeks after they are released. Mbs 85 Different Content (Title 2) 23% more efficient > Supports viewer QoE per-title and per-resolution. 1080p } 80 3.10 Mbs SSIM PLUS QoE Score > Supports viewer QoE for devices from all major 75 manufacturers including Apple, LG, Samsung, Sony and more. 70 > Monitors QoE plus QoD and QoS. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Fully customizable templates, jobs and device profiles Bit Rate (Mbps) 100 B) RESOLUTION ADAPTIVE RESOLUTION ADAPTIVE Title 2/1080p/TV > Intuitive interface with user-defined viewer experience Same Content 95 Title 2/720p/TV 2.40 thresholds to drive actionable alerts. 1080p Same viewer Mbs 3.10 Mbs experience 90 QoE score: 90 3.10 Mbs 85 Same Content 23% more efficient 720p } THE FASTEST: THE MOST ACCURATE: 80 2.40 Mbs SSIM PLUS QoE Score 75 10 NETFLIX VMAF 70 15 COMPUTATIONAL 5

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M CORRELATION 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 20 1 E Bit Rate (Mbps) PSNR 100 Title 2/720p/Cell C) DEVICE ADAPTIVE Database PSNR VMAF SSIMPLUS DEVICE ADAPTIVE Computational PSNR VMAF SSIMPLUS Same Content Title 2/720p/TV Complexity 1.0 16.4 1.5 AVERAGE 0.756 0.853 0.900 95 CSIQVQA 0.575 0.662 0.903 720p Same viewer ECVQ 0.740 0.736 0.882 2.40 Mbs experience 90 QoE score: 90 EVVQ 0.771 0.874 0.922 0.80 2.40 Mbs Mbs IVP 0.820 0.879 0.862 67% more THE MOST COMPLETE: 85 Same Content IRCCyN_IVC_1080i 0.653 0.791 0.855 } efficient IRCCyN_IVC_Inﬂuence 0.817 0.942 0.935 720p HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM 80 0.80 Mbs behaviours IRCCyN_IVC_SVC4QoE 0.846 0.920 0.909

JEG264HMIX1 0.770 0.930 0.915 SSIM PLUS QoE Score DEVICE & VIEWING 75 conditions MobileVQA 0.824 0.956 0.941 VQEGHD3 0.741 0.841 0.875 VIDEO CONTENT properties 70 Accuracy Improvement: VMAF VMAF vs PSNR 0.853/0.756 = 1.128 (12.8% improvement) SSIMPLUS vs PSNR 0.900/0.756 = 1.191 (19.1% improvement) SSIMPLUS accuracy improvement over VMAF 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0.191/0.128 = 1.492 (49.2% improvement) Additional capabilities of SSIMPLUS Bit Rate (Mbps) SSIMPLUS COMPOUND EFFICIENCY This is most comprehensive and correct/scientiﬁc ✔ ✔ Cross-Resolution QoE Viewing Conditions comparison of video quality measures based on ten of Same viewer ✔ Cross-Frame Rate QoE ✔ Viewer-Type the most widely used publicly subject-rated video quality saving by saving by saving by A) CONTENT experience ✔ Dynamic Range QoE ✔ Network Impairments assessment databases. DEVICE RESOLUTION CONTENT QoE score: 90 ✔ Viewer Device Adaptive ✔ Source QoE Conducted by the University of Waterloo Electrical adaptation adaptation adaptation B) RESOLUTION ✔ Degraded-Reference QoE (Quality of Experience) and Computer Engineering Video Lab, July 2017 2.4M 0.8M 3.1M 2.4M 4M 3.1M 80% C) DEVICE Efficiency TOTAL SAVINGS 4M 0.8M }

Future proof.

Ready to deploy scalable software SSIMPLUS VOD Monitor runs in stand-alone or cluster mode on: • Bare-metal (CentOS 7.2 and 7.5) • Virtual machines (VirtualBox and VMWare) • Amazon AWS Any ﬁlesystem that can be mounted on CentOS is supported.

Supported formats

HDR Formats Video Codecs HDR10, HLG*, Dolby Vision*. Apple ProRes, AV1*, Google VP9, H.261, H.263 / H.263-1996, H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version2, H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4AVC / Media Container Formats MPEG-4 part 10, HEVC, JPEG 200, JPEG-LS, MPEG-1 video, MPEG-2 AVI, AVR, AVS, DV, FLV, GXF, H261, H263, H264, HEVC, IFF, IVR, video, MPEG-4 part 2, On2 VP6, On2 VP3, On2 VP5, On2 VP6, On2 VP6, LVF, LXF, M4V, MJ2, Mjpeg, Mjpeg_2000, MOV, MP4, MPEG-PS, On2 VP7, On2 VP8, QuickTime Animation video, Theora, Windows MPEG-TS, MVE, MXF, V210, WebM, YUV, 3G2, 3GP. Media Video 7, Windows Media Video 8, Windows Media Video 9.

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VODMonitorSpecSheet-11_18.pdf