James Healey, DATAMONITOR 2005
"Matador™ is an essential step forward in creating a truly digital workflow"
Adrian Scott, Advisor 2005
"FBBT's Matador™ is one of the most exciting new products I have seen recently," says Scott. "It is a brilliant example of the way that techniques and technology from the IT world are now becoming mainstream in the once rather closed world of broadcasting."
Patrick Hoyle, Project Manager, Siemens Business Services
“Matador™ should set the industry tongues wagging.”
Bob Gentry, CTO, Middle Eastern Broadcasting Company (“MBC”) , Dubai
“As the convergence of technologies applied to the Media Industry continues at a rapid pace, Broadcasters, Telecommunications Companies, Internet Service Providers & Content owners are developing new & more flexible ways of delivering media to consumers.
Companies must remain as financially efficient as possible keeping costs under control while constantly exploring new revenue opportunities. At the same time, the technology platforms used to process & deliver the content are becoming more complex thus increasing the demands on technical staff at the head end facilities. FBBT understands these issues & Matador™ brings together all three requirements by providing a simple & effective monitoring tool that can automatically look across the entire core infrastructure in a technical facility & alert the operational or engineering staff to problems the moment they arise. Matador™ is analogous to the instrument panel in a modern aircraft because it can constantly provide the technology “pilots” of a Broadcast facility with all the information they require to keep the system running. Matador™ in my opinion will become an essential core component of every technical facility of the future. “
David MacGregor, Managing Director, Televsions Systems Limited.
“In the broadcast television environment over 90% of on-air outages are
caused by equipment failures which happen when the equipment is not in
use but only noticed when it goes on air. Matador™ provides the monitoring
facility to identify equipment failures as soon as they happen, allowing
system outages to be greatly reduced. The cost of outages can be
considerable particularly if they happen during a commercial break.”
