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Can you afford not to monitor?
Video broadcast and system monitoring tools from Suitcase TV.
The television industry has changed significantly over the last ten years. Huge leaps forward in technology, changes in regulation and increasing competition in nearly every part of the industry, have resulted in a vast range of television channels being available to the consumer 24/7/.
TV is now available in may different formats and through many different providers via cable, satellite and still terrestrial broadcasts. As soon as the TV screen of a customer goes black because transmission has been interrupted, it is a potential loss of revenue to the service provider. The loss of revenue can ripple back up the transmission chain and eventually stops with the engineer who didn’t notice a problem with a TX server. For this reason, Suitcase TV has developed applications to automatically monitor both transmissions, on and off air, and system process and workflows.
Purple Monitoring, from Suitcase TV is a flexible system for monitoring broadcasts, on or off-air. It is suitable for most signal formats, including ASI, in either real time or sampling modes, to detect errors such as video-freeze, video black, video synch (analogue), audio silence and audio loudness.
The Purple Monitoring displays can be hosted on standard PC monitors, plasma displays or video walls and can be fully customised by the NOC engineer to display channel and audio & visual alarm information. These system provide vital information about the status of the channels being broadcast enabling engineers and manager to responds swiftly to faults and outages.
Aqua DashBoard, a new product from Suitcase TV, is a system process & workflow-monitoring tool. Initially only available as to run alongside the Suitcase TV MediaStor Media Asset Management System, DashBoard offers a customisable viewing portal of the system’s status, using graphical displays such as traffic light style indicators, and gauges. At a glance, the operator can detect whether systems are operating normally or if problems have been encountered. Unlike many network monitoring application that often use SNMP monitoring, DashBoard can report on every aspect of the system: Media Job Processing, Storage Monitoring, Application activity (including database activity), Hardware status, Network/bandwidth monitoring. DashBoard can also display trends as well as current status. For the future, DashBoard will be capable of sending text alerts and enable remote access using web browsers and mobile hand-held devices such as telephones.
The first development version of Aqua DashBoard will be launched at IBC 2010 and will solely monitoring Suitcase TV MediStor, but later versions will take on 3rd party monitoring.
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