IBC 2018 was awash with analytics products right down the video delivery chain, as our social media activity highlighted. The usual suspects were out in force but a couple of smaller players, including Cupertino-based Interra Systems and Sweden’s Agama Technologies, were showcasing some clever stuff. Introductions to both analytics technology outfits were appropriately timed, with Interra recently debuting AI and machine learning capabilities in its Baton quality control platform, while the Agama team arrived back full of energy from a long vacation to provide a rundown of what claims to be the industry’s first monitoring system for remote PHY (R-PHY) cable network architectures, launched this summer. Most noise around video analytics today is around on-device QoE and this is due…