S3 Group today announced that leading German cable TV operator Kabel Baden-Württemberg (Kabel BW), has licensed its StormTestTM Development Center solution for automated Set-Top Box (STB) validation testing. Kabel BW is one of Germany's leading cable TV operators with over 2.4 million customers. A growing proportion of these are taking advantage of a compelling triple play offer of TV, telephone and internet access.
StormTest Development Center is the industry standard in STB test automation. It consists of hardware to allow test scripts to control all inputs to each STB and captures all the audio and video outputs from each STB. The feature-rich but easy-to-use StormTest Developer Suite application allows the rapid development and deployment of test scripts even without any programming experience while its reporting interface allows detailed analysis and distribution of test result data. When fully deployed, StormTest has been shown capable of delivering in excess of 60% of a reduction in the effort required to execute complete system test suites.
"We are delighted to announce our first customer for StormTest Development Center in the German cable TV market. We see this as an exciting time in the evolution of the German Pay TV market with the delivery of a range of new services to end customers. Kabel BW is focused on delivering the highest quality customer experience possible and we believe that the proven efficiencies and consistency which StormTest Development Center brings to their product development process will contribute significantly to that goal." said Philip Brennan, VP TV Technology, S3 Group.
"We chose S3 Group's StormTest Development Center to support our product and service development programs to ensure that we are delivering only the highest quality and reliability of services to our subscribers. StormTest provides us with improved efficiency and consistency in our testing process. We have been using the product for just over 6 months and are extremely happy with the results we are seeing from it and with the level of support we have received from S3 Group's StormTest support team" said Ludwig Modra, Head of Department Network Operation and Engineering, Kabel BW.
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About S3 Group
S3 Group provides products, solutions and professional services to the Digital TV, Telehealth and Semiconductor industries. S3 Group's TV Technology Business Unit has over 16 years experience working with global operators, Set-Top Box (STB) manufacturers, middleware vendors, conditional access vendors and semiconductor companies. This Business Unit is recognized for providing leading system integration services and products to address the STB lifecycle management challenges faced by its' clients globally. Founded in 1986, S3 Group has development centers in Ireland, the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and the USA with sales offices and representatives globally. For further information please visit www.s3group.com/tv-technology
About Kabel BW
Kabel BW is Baden-Wuerttemberg's high-growth, innovative provider of fast internet, telephone and TV (Triple Play). Kabel BW is today one of Europe's largest cable operators in Europe with 2.4 million customers, being present in every second home in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Kabel BW offers attractive packages with an outstanding price-performance ratio with very quick internet broadband (up to 100 Mbit/s) and telephone flat rates. 99% of the 3.6 million cable households in Baden-Wuerttemberg can already take advantage of 'CleverKabel' offers due to the extensive modernisation of the network. The modernised cable network provides each household more than 5 GBit/s (5000 Mbit/s) for internet, telephone and TV. Kabel BW customers have access to 400 TV channels (thereof 30 HDTV) and 150 radio channels in analogue or digital. With the "Kabel BW Videothek" Kabel BW is offering his own Video-on-Demand Platform.
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Contacts:
S3 Group
John Maguire
Tel: +353 87 682 3264
Email: john.maguire@s3group.com
or
Kabel
BW
Maurice Boehler
Tel: +49 6221 333 1070
E-mail: maurice.boehler@kabelbw.com