BEIJING, August 2, 2012 – Market leading manufacturer of broadcast video testing, monitoring and analysis solutions---the company announced that it has upgraded its medius centralized Management Server Provide video service providers with a more comprehensive view of the broadcast status of a program on a large broadcast network across a wide area.
The new Program Alert panel provides a new Sentry report view that provides more program status and alert status information on each screen. This helps users find problems more quickly and act earlier. These new views include a geographical view that shows all the monitoring points on the map and quickly highlights the problem area or region; a grid map that shows the alert status of the program at all monitoring points so that you can quickly identify and fix the source location with video and audio problems; and a tiled view, Provides snapshots of alert status for all programs or services, and quickly highlights which programs need attention most.
"These new features of Medius are ideal for people in the Network Operations Center (NOC) who are responsible for managing multiple front-end systems and hubs within a large network," said Eben Jenkins, general manager of the company's video product line. Because these features provide them with a comprehensive, concise and understandable view of the state of the broadcast on their network. These features are also very timely, as video service providers are increasingly consolidating their network and front-end systems to improve efficiency and deliver new services. ”
Medius collects, organizes, and displays key information from multiple sentry units in the Sentry product family, which are deployed in front-end systems and other key points in the network to monitor programs closely to see if there are videos that affect the quality of the audience's experience (QoE) in the program's transmission stream. Audio and other content. Video service providers Use this information to speed up the diagnosis and repair of problems to ensure the best quality of experience for users.
Medius is a member of the Sentry video quality Monitoring Solutions series, which is available to cable TV, telecom, IPTV and other video service providers. Sentry can be used for video and audio problems (that is, static frames, black field, macro block effect, video compression, audio loudness, etc.) for early detection and diagnosis-no matter what time these errors occur or where in the network, service providers can provide quality services to ensure that users get the best quality of experience ( QoE). Sentry achieves this by monitoring the scalability of all programs in the network, as well as the unique combination of real-time, 24x7 (24/7) functions, through unprecedented network visibility in the IP and content layers.