Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) offers a truly amazing way to secure and move streams for OTA broadcast operations, and we’re seeing a lot of new stations take advantage of this technology to optimize video streaming performance — and video quality — as they transport video across unpredictable (but economical!) networks.
But why stop there in using broadcast technology to support and simplify your operations? No matter how many inbound and outbound streams you manage, you can benefit from a centralized monitoring model — and our new D2Monitor solution makes it easy.
Whether you’re working with a hub-and-spoke model, a bunch of point-to-point links, or delivery of ATSC 1.0 signals to a “lighthouse” transmitter, you can use D2Monitor to keep an eye on every stream, all the time. Consolidate monitoring across your operations, and you radically reduce the amount of time it takes to check in and confirm that a stream is up and uncompromised. No more logging in to each device! Instead, you pull up a single window, where you can get real-time status data for each and every stream.
When you consolidate monitoring, you also make it possible to configure automated notifications and alerts in the event that any device goes down or metrics (bandwidth, dropped and retransmitted packets, etc.) fall out of an acceptable range. What’s more, with continual access to these metrics over time, you also gain a historical view of stream health and network performance. You can identify patterns or recurring issues that point to a problem with an upstream device. With past performance data in hand, you’re also equipped to speak with your ISP about resolving network issues.
Rather than wait for that alert that a stream has gone down, you can be proactive in maintaining stream and network health, preventing issues from getting to the point that they can compromise the viewing experience or make it impossible for audiences to watch your programming.
Running a broadcast operation involves enough complexities when all streams are healthy and moving across the network smoothly. A convenient centralized monitoring solution such as D2Monitor helps to keep things simple, allowing you to confirm at a glance that everything is OK — or sending you a notification or alert when it’s not. With peace of mind that you’ve got monitoring of all inbound and outbound streams covered, you can focus your time and energy on other parts of running a broadcast station.
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