Feed: Squidoo: NAB 2010 - AggScore: 14.1

NAB 2010 updated Sat Jan 15 2011 6:06 pm EST

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Monitoring of Broadcast, Satellite, and Digital Cinema systems is specialized. Simple SNMP systems do not adapt well to these large enterprise operations with specialized equipment. MTD is putting forth an enhanced line up of Broadcast Systems, Digital Cinema, and Satellite Distribution Systems Monitoring Products at NAB 2010. Enhancements include new extensions to monitoring of huge Satellite distribution and Digital Cinema systems along with support for broadcast enterprise operations from program distribution systems through to the transmitter. There have been both core improvements and enhancements in every part of our product line: MTD Sentry, MTD Central, and MTD Track. With MTD you can take your NOC anywhere. MTD provides various views and drawings to describe the monitored system allowing drill down from a high level view to a specific system, to a specific device. Icons change according to the alert level in the system. MTD enhances this with "Halo." Halo allows operators and engineers to add specific notes about the issues on the device giving visibility at the drawing and device selection level. Devices alerts can be mapped into the MTD root cause analyzer allowing specific devices and alerts to bubble up with related messages tagged with it. This information along with device error information is available as a web service for export to a trouble management system allowing easy filing of trouble tickets.