Leading Australian Telco goes with NOMAD

Sydney, Australia, 13 October 2020 – One of Australia’s largest Telecommunications providers has chosen Techtel to deploy the NOMAD PRO by Bridge Technologies – an RF&IP network probe that is highly portable and easy to use. This enables the end customer to monitor and optimize their network from a variety of facilities and remote locations.

Replacing the legacy VB12 probe, the new NOMAD PRO  is a complete, compact and free-standing unit which can monitor and analyze multiple signals independently and concurrently without the need for a host system. In addition, it has a built in Wi-Fi hotspot which enables it to connect easily to a laptop. As a result, network engineers can deploy and easily move it between various locations on the network as well as remote sites.

The new monitoring probe covers the majority of the customer’s monitoring requirements in IP multicast, OTT and RF networks including ASI, DVB-C, DVB-T/T2 (terrestrial) and of course DVB-S/S2 (satellite).

In addition, NOMAD’s capability to configure individual ETR290™ engines running in parallel on the Ethernet interface, meets the customers need for real-time quality checks and simplified analytics breakdown of all TS streams before delivery.

Bridge Technologies’ patented MediaWindow visualization technology enables complex structures and data to be understood by a user without the deep operator knowledge, allowing them to promptly take corrective actions.

 “Bridge Technologies’ NOMAD provides an unprecedented level of functionality required to remotely monitor, analyze, repair and optimize any IP network. It has a substantial set of monitoring tools for such a small box, which will provide deep analytical functionality to our customer’s infrastructure for many years to come – from ASI to satellite input and beyond ”, said Mal Chandler, CEO of Techtel. 

The NOMAD PRO joins the list of other Bridge Technologies network monitoring solutions recently deployed through Techtel in Australia including OTT and Multicast probes (VB220 and VB120) for monitoring. The variety of the supplied probes can enable users to closely monitor availability and quality of the services from the playout to head-end to transmission and then to broadcast and OTT, so nothing can be overlooked in the signal supply chain from the sources to the destinations.