Swedish video quality specialist Agama Technologies claims to have launched the market’s first video monitoring system for remote PHY (R-PHY) cable network architectures – a technology fundamental for permitting a CMTS (cable modem termination system) to support an IP-based digital HFC plant. Analytics is a dangerous game as Faultline Online Reporter has warned in the past, but for a company evolving from a supplier of probes running in-cloud or on bare metal servers to software for OTT video services, the announcement is a reminder that the physical layer is undergoing repeated improvements. If Agama’s claim is true and it is indeed first to market, then it looks set to piggyback on the success of networking technology vendors, most notably Arris…