UPDATE: French firm Witbe has confirmed to IPTV News that it has won new contracts with UAE telco Etisalat and Chinese IPTV operator BesTV to provide its triple-play quality assurance solutions.

Etisalat is cited as deploying Witbe solutions in three major cities in the United Arab Emirates - Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Ajman - including video monitoring robots (standard- and high-definition), as well as data and voice robots.  The telco has also selected Witbe CORP, a central multifunction portal installed in the operator's service supervision centre, dedicated to aggregating, correlating and alerting all available results and information in a real-time view.

Meanwhile, Chinese IPTV BesTV has selected Witbe solutions for monitoring its IPTV service from their network operations centre in Shanghai.  BesTV currently has over 3mn IPTV subscribers across 70% of mainland China, delivered over the networks of China Telecom and China Unicom.