Network Monitoring - Broadcast Equipment Monitoring

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.

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How often have you needed to capture a few mouse clicks and keystrokes and your screen into a video to document something or perhaps you’ve wanted to turn a PowerPoint into video. SmallVideoSoft.com has made an awesome free tool, screenvideocapture, that does it for you. Here’s what it looks like when you run it.

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A memory leak is one of the most vicious problems a PC based system can have. This post explains what a memory leak is and how it might be detected.
Memory leaks happen when a program, process, or thread requests memory from the operating system and fails to return it after using it: when the [...]

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One of the top causes of slow network devices are Auto Negotiation issues. Assumptions about how auto-negotiation works often lead to a wrong setup. Auto-negotiation allows a router or switch port to automatically connect with a device and determine the optimum duplex and speed for that device.
Speed is the transfer rate of the interface 10 Mbps, [...]

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Many WMI commands need to be run from a common account on your machine and on the remote machines. The account should be in the administrators group or you may get no or partial data. Microsoft has a full discussion here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa826699(VS.85).aspx
Be sure to setup a common local administrative group or follow some of the other [...]

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Sysinternals.com has been a source of great utilities for many years and in the recent past has been acquired by Microsoft. A utility that many in the industry are aware of and may have used is bginfo. Bginfo lists key information about a PCs configuration and setup on the desktop. This is particularly useful when [...]

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Welcome to the new MTD Systems Blog. On this blog you will find IT tips as well as information about what we are doing. MTD Systems is primarily a system monitoring company focused around monitoring all aspects of IT based systems including excellent support for video applications whether Broadcast, News, Digital Cinema, Digital Signage, Satellite [...]

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