Network Monitoring and Management

MTD Systems uses a variety of techniques and protocols to capture the state of a complex video or broadcast system. In todays broadcast, Cinema, or editing facilities perhaps 10 to 20% of the information needed to fully monitor these systems is available by SNMP this is an important component. Often if someone is [...]

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This page has been moved to the network monitoring home page.

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Technorati Tags: Avid, gvg, Harris, inews, Network Monitoring Software

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MTD Systems demonstrates monitoring of a large Avid editing system.

Monitoring Large Avid System on Vimeo.
Here is a demonstration of MTD Monitoring a large GVG Newsroom system. We call it our Network Monitoring Overview.

MTD Systems Network Monitoring Overview on Vimeo.
At MTD Systems, what we do is watch all of the equipment - all the [...]

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Tools To Simplify Broadcast News Editing

You know how you have to make a placeholder for the story on INews and then double enter the data into the news editor. Look at what a mess this is:

No more!!!! The MTD Tool simplifys the process and removes the possibility of error:

This is a software add-in for [...]

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DCinema Review

XDC partnership in IP-RACINE focus on EURONEWS - Digital Cinema was still an emerging market when IP-RACINE project started in 2004, less than 150 cinema screens in the world were digital (about 0.1% of the total) and about 100-150 films in total had ever been ‘finished’ through the …
The come-back (again) of the third [...]

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Network Monitoring Overview

Network Monitoring Enterprize

Broadcast Transmitter Monitoring

Satellite Distribution Monitoring

Tagged: Network Monitoring, Digital Cinema, Satellite, Newsroom, mtdsystems.com

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It is common to experience network slow downs when transferring large files across subnets. The increase in security requirements, slow switches, hubs, gateways, speed filters, routers, overloaded switches, other departments control issues, IT department conflicting rules, and port negotiations can all contribute to the problem.  The problem is usually found when video is transcoded, moved [...]

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A ten minute overview of a typical MTDSystems Monitored site

This site is a TV Newsroom system, MTD also provides monitoring for Digital Cinema, Satellite, and all other IT based systems.
Tagged: Network Monitoring, Digital Cinema, Satellite, Newsroom

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MTDSystems uses a variety of means to collect information from monitored systems: active polling known as ‘pull’ technology as well as traps, syslog and other types of ‘push’ information. The following article describes combining push and pull methods to build effective network monitoring. These combined with smart alerting and a graphical control panel [...]

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Sometimes it’s a little challenging to explain how MTD Monitoring is optimized for Video, satellite, and Digital Cinema applications and gives a huge advantage over traditonal network monitoring applications. So we’ve put together a feature comparison check list with hover tags to help.

Soon we will be linking it to our main web page, until then [...]

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