Network Monitoring Software

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 and other devices. The applications include digital cinema distribution, teleconference, distance learning, TV broadcast content distribution, digital signage, and the list goes on.

Traditional monitoring systems, because of polling speed, within an hour or two NOC personnel can know whether a device has failed or not and whether the receiver was up, on the right channel with adequate signal level, and locked for the transmission. As to the traps, a little secret: many of the devices do not support traps and if they do traps can be lost because they are sent as UDP traffic with no assured delivery. Requirements for today's professional satellite network systems have evolved to the point where NOC personnel need more information and they need it more quickly. Representative are teleconference, distance learning, and media distribution systems.

The Next Level Of Reliability For IT Based Video, distribution, and cinema systems.

On-air failures don't always have to happen - there are warnings first. Tell us the things that keep you up at night and we'll help you design a network monitoring software solution.

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 distribution or any of the countless other ways video is used. We watch your system from capture all the way through to the transmitter. As such our product has more facets than any traditional network monitoring solution on the market.

MTD Systems offers the most complete monitoring solution for today's multi vendor environment. Media, data, and control pass between many different products from many different vendors. The MTD Systems solution integrates this complex interplay into a single, unified, monitoring solution.

Our philosophy is to watch all of it, integrate the information and make it as meaningful as possible, look for the warnings and tell you about them. As you'll hear us say, "on-air failures don't always have to happen, there are warnings first. Tell us what keeps you up at night and we'll help you design a monitoring solution." All network monitoring software is not the same, some is made with media based systems in mind.

Are you getting the return on investment (ROI) that you deserve out of your network monitoring software? Before you purchase a monitoring system you need to understand what your goals are and what you intend to accomplish.

Many packages require a lot of configuration despite the fact that they incorporate "auto discovery." That a system finds a device on the network doesn't insure that it will tell you more than such basics as uptime, up/down, and network through put. In todays media based systems such as broadcast, satellite based, and digital cinema systems more information is needed.

The big thing hanging out there is did the media get distributed to the places it needs to be. Is the video in the play out server? Is the movie at the theaters it will be shown at? Did the training program make it to the endpoint for video conference training?

The MTD Systems Network Monitoring Tool provides this level of data as a standard part of the package. This is a network monitoring solution that will provide you the highest ROI.

If you are in charge of a network that handles media you need to know that your media is in the right place. MTD Systems is alone in adding this functionality so that broadcasters and digital cinema systems can but truly monitored and have the assurance that media is in place and ready to play.

The same is true for video conference and other satellite content delivery systems.