Network Monitoring and Management

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Third Generation Satellite Network Monitoring

November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Network Monitoring, Satellite Network Monitoring

Today’s Satellite Systems
Many satellite system projects these days involve satellite uplinks with hundreds or perhaps thousands of receivers in the network receiving content from them. Traditionally, if these networks are monitored, the planners rely on SNMP traps for big troubles and plan for round-robin polling and pinging to determine the health of the receivers [...]

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MTD Systems - Network Monitoring With Media Enhancements

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Network Monitoring and Management

The purpose of this website is to keep you up to date on MTD Systems and to help bring together resources to help you effectively manage and monitor your network based system.

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It’s All In How You Look At Your Network

October 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Broadcast, Digital Cinema, Network Monitoring, Network Monitoring and Management

MTD Systems has been doing this Network Monitoring thing for awhile now and we have developed many ways for our clients to look at devices, systems, and their enterprise. It’s been called The Human Interface: How can your technical people and operators best get their mind around what is happening anywhere in the [...]

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SNMP - A Network Monitoring Building Block

October 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Network Monitoring and Management, Uncategorized

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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Why Network Monitoring? What’s My ROI

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Network Monitoring and Management

We found an interesting article that begins to broach the subject of ROI for network monitoring. In the case of video facilities, traditional SNMP and WMI based network monitoring software misses key devices. Other means must be used to get the information needed to determine health of and media flow in video [...]

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MTDSystems Demonstration Of Monitoring Large Avid And GVG Systems

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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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