Network Monitoring - Broadcast Equipment Monitoring

Improve the ROI of networked Broadcast Equipment - Video Equipment.  These complex systems are sometimes difficult to keep working properly, and when there is difficulty - it is a challenge to determine the cause of the trouble.

At MTD Systems, what we do is watch every part of every device in the system.  And we don’t limit the means of collecting the data either.  MTD will collect data by any available means.

The four biggest mistakes made in monitoring broadcast equipment systems are:

1. They Gather data by SNMP and WMI only when the richest data sets on this equipment in in logs.  Some devices only have a serial port or a telnet connection.
2. Failure to follow the media.  On media based systems sometimes you can only see error conditions by noting that the media isn’t where it should be.
3. Inability to track media through an enterprise.  Media prepared in one facility must move properly with it’s metadata to another.
4. Slow aggregation of the data.  On sites with thousands of endpoints data collection may take an hour or more.  Meantime events have passed without status being known.

MTD Systems gathers data by any available means, tracks media even through an enterprise, and is massivly parallel so that data from thousands of sites can be collected in minutes.  The four mistakes in monitoring these systems is usually caused by monitoring with generic network monitoring systems.  Some broadcast equipment makers have even rolled out such systems.

Broadcast equipment and video equipment needs monitoring designed for it.  MTD Systems monitoring is designed by broadcast engineers, who have been in the trenches at the stations, for IT broadcast equipment monitoring and data collection by any and all means.

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