MELBOURNE, FLA. — From the Space Coast of Florida, Qligent has established itself as a source of monitoring, visualization and delivery analytics tools for broadcasters.
Now, it has secured its largest U.S. broadcast project to date, and it involves one of the nation’s biggest broadcast TV companies.
Qligent has initiated deployment of an enterprise-level Vision Compliance Monitoring and Analysis solution on behalf of Sinclair Broadcast Group.
The Qligent Vision system, scheduled for roll out through the remainder of March, is designed support QoS/QoE, compliance and transmission monitoring across 191 TV stations in 89 markets, covering more than 600 channels of programming.
Sinclair’s Qligent Vision solution is a hybrid architecture that brings cloud and on-premise elements together, providing a centralized portal for compliance monitoring and data aggregation in the cloud.
In addition, there is a user interface to manage all associated applications including compliance content storage, access and repurposing.
Sinclair is partnering with Wasabi Cloud Storage to accommodate the compliance content storage requirements.
The on-premise hardware includes Qligent Vision monitoring probes to accommodate compliance and QoS/QoE monitoring. For example, the Vision probes will ingest ASI, IP and RF signals, initiate high-resolution recording, and transfer content to the cloud for compliance monitoring and recording. The probes will also monitor Sinclair’s transmitters and RF facility management systems via SNMP. The on-premise system leverages off-the-shelf servers to house the probes.
The Qligent team worked closely with Sinclair engineers to customize elements of the Vision architecture to address their requirements.
The compliance monitoring application will cover a broad range of applications, including closed captioning, audio loudness and SCTE digital program insertion triggers. The latter addresses compliance monitoring for local commercials or short-form clips inserted into national broadcasts.
— Brian Galante
