IP is complex. Your monitoring shouldn't be.
Get full observability into all your streams.
ST-2110 and IP transport stream probing, built for your whole team.
All monitoring platforms give you data. TAG gives you the full picture. Whether you're running a live sports feed, a playout chain, or a hybrid cloud operation, TAG watches every stream. Surface issues with enough context to act across every format, workflow, and corner of your broadcast operation.
Signal quality monitoring across every stream layer.
Give your teams eyes on every stream, every format.
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All major media workflows, formats & standards
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500+ unique events
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Actionable, helpful alarms
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Integrated multiviewing
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Full API customization & control
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COTS, cloud & hybrid
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Quality at any scale
Deeply monitor all media formats & standards across all workflows: TAG monitors and visualizes all major compressed & uncompressed stream types in real time with the same platform, and guarantees full clarity even for the most complex workflows
Proactively identify and address potential problems with comprehensive detection of over 500 event types across all stream layers and major media formats. Customize alert thresholds to receive timely, actionable notifications that help you minimize downtime and ensure a seamless viewer experience.
Never miss a beat with TAG’s proactive and insightful alarms. Get notified based on your thresholds and preferred alarming method: Multiviewer overlay, email, SNMP, syslog or centralized error display
Visualize your workflow end-to-end with the most advanced, comprehensive and flexible multiviewing capabilities available today, built on top of powerful monitoring
Customize, create and manage: The TAG platform is fully accessible by an advanced and documented JSON API to control all fuctionalities and configuration of the system.
TAG empowers you to stay ahead of the curve by running natively with your workflow, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or across both. Need to adapt? TAG Seamlessly moves with you
Optimize large scale operations with TAG MCS for unified control, configuration and API access across all systems, and a comprehensive view of your aggregated data
Deep probing for compressed and uncompressed workflows.
Run broadcasts without surprises.
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Smart recording
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Monitoring modes for resource savings
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Smarter Monitoring - TAG Content Matching
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Realtime deep analysis & analytics
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Optimized source sharing- TAG Bridge
Automate stream recording based on custom thresholds for optimal analysis and compliance. Capture pre- and post-event recoridngs along with all critical metadata (manifest, IP address, etc.)
Leverage TAG’s adaptive monitoring modes – Full, Light, and X-Light – to intelligently optimize resource consumption without sacrificing performance. Continuously analyzes your content in every monitoirng mode, and automatically switch to full visualization only when an error occures.
Automate your monitoring and gain valuable insight by leveraging TAG’s Content Matching Technology: Detect & match identical content across resolutions and frame rates to measure latency, A/V alignment and much more between any two or more points in the workflow
Collect TAG valuable data across your media workflow and visualize it using best-in-breed IT tools like Kibana, Grafana and Kafka. Gain full control of your workflow and make data-informed decisions for your operation
Conserve valuable resources with TAG Bridge. Its single-ingest, secure sharing model means you only need to process a source once, significantly reducing bandwidth and computing costs. TAG Bridge empowers seamless collaboration across your teams, ensuring everyone has access to the data they need.
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Share Zero Friction Licenses between locations and teams
Align costs to your consumption by choosing opex, capex or hybrid models
What IP formats and transport stream protocols does TAG's monitoring platform support?
Formats & Protocols
ST-2110 : 2110-10/20/21/22(JXS)/30/31/4
ST-2022-6 : SDI over IP
ST-2022-7 : Redundancy for Uncompressed (2022-6,2022-2,2110-10/20/22/30/31/40) & RTP
MPEG-2 Video : up to MP@5.1
H.264 Video : up to Hi@4.1
HEVC Video : up to MP@5.1
JPEG2000 TR-01 : up to 200mbps
NDI : HB, HX3
CDI : 2110 and JXS
JPEG XS : up to UHD 2gbps
AVS+
VP8
Color Space : YUV420, YUV422, YUV422-10bit
Multicast & Unicast : TS over UDP
TS over RTP, TS over HRTP
HLS/MPEG-DASH/MSS/CMAF : OTT formats
RTMP : PUSH & PULL
SMPTE-2022-6/7 : RTP over UDP
ST-2110 : RTP over UDP
Zixi : client mode at the Input & Output (1.16.11.44+64)
SRT : Listener and Caller modes, passphrase
WebRTC : Janus-based implimentations, Receive and Transmit
Other Layer Analysis
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Audio Layer Analysis
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Video Layer Analysis
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Signaling Analysis
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Subtitling Analysis
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Scrambling Analysis
Audio codec : MPEG2 / AAC / HE-AAC / A-52 / AES67
Dolby : Dolby-D, Dolby-Plus, Dolby Atmos
Audio channel mode : 1 / 1+1 / 2 / 5.1 / 8 / 16 / 7.1
Loudness monitoring : EBU-R-128/ITU-1770-3/ATSC A/85
Silence detection : Mono, stereo, dual mono, surround
Clipping detection : User adjustable threshold
Video codec : MPEG2 / H.264 / HEVC / UNCOMPRESSED
HDR : HDR10, HLG,PQ
Video encoding : Level and profile
Video resolution : From SD (480) to UHD (2160)
Scan mode : Interlaced, Progressive
Video aspect ratio : 4:3 / 16:9
Video frame rate : 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60
Video content : Black / Freeze / Black with logo
Video quality : Blocking detection, SSIM
SCTE-35/104 : Stored as XML & Binary
DVB & ID3 subtitles : Overlay display
CC errors : Separate rules
Closed Caption : CEA-708, CEA-608, OP-47, WebVTT, STPP
Multi language support : Support for up to 16 PIDst
Scrambling verification
Crypto period measurement
ECM/EMM existence tests
ECM Private data change notification
DVB Simulcrypt AES
ECB descrambling
HLS AES descrambling
DVB Transport Layer Analysis
TS sync loss
Sync byte error
PAT error
Continuity count error
PMT error
PID error
Transport error
CRC error
PCR repetition error
PCR discontinuity
PCR accuracy error
PTS error
CAT error
NIT actual/other error
SDT actual/other error
EIT actual/other error
RST/TDT Error
TS PSI, TS DVB SI
Notifications & Channel Statistics
SNMP : Configurable SNMP TRAPS
SYS LOG : Configurable sys-log notifications
SMTP : Email notifications
Overlay : Overlay error display on the mosaic
Centralized Error Display : Group error channels to a single display
Service structure tree-view (per PID)
Display of each PID’s bitrate
Display of service bitrate
Display of service properties
Graphical display of audio loudness and
True-peak
Foxtel: Monitoring the Leap to IP
Beyond transitioning to all-IP, Foxtel needed to monitor multiple workflows and formats across multiple sites at high scale. They required a monitoring and visualization system capable of simultaneously handling all types of IP signals including any combination of uncompressed and compressed HD and UHD, NDI, and OTT streams including encryption.
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FAQ
IP video monitoring is the continuous analysis of media signals transported over IP networks — checking for errors, quality degradation, and compliance across every stream in your workflow. As broadcast infrastructure moves from SDI to IP, monitoring becomes the difference between catching a problem in your control room and hearing about it from a viewer.
TAG supports ST-2110 (2110-10/20/21/22/30/31/40), ST-2022-6, ST-2022-7, compressed and uncompressed formats, NDI, and OTT streams including encrypted content. A full specifications list is available on this page.
TAG's platform handles compressed and uncompressed streams simultaneously within a single multiviewer and monitoring environment. You don't need separate tools or infrastructure for different signal types.
Transport stream monitoring analyzes the integrity of MPEG-TS signals at the packet level, checking for sync loss, continuity count errors, PAT and PMT errors, PID errors, and ETR priority violations. TAG monitors all three ETR priority tiers and surfaces actionable alarms rather than raw data dumps.
TAG runs on COTS hardware, public cloud infrastructure, and hybrid environments. The platform is deployed the same way regardless of where it runs, so your team doesn't need to learn a different system for each environment.
TAG exposes a fully documented JSON API that gives NMS, BMS, network controllers, and third-party orchestration systems complete access to configuration and monitoring data. If your control system can talk JSON, it can talk to TAG.
Zero Friction Licensing means a single TAG license covers all platform features; there are no per-feature or per-module charges. Licenses can be shared across locations and teams, and you can choose between opex, capex, or hybrid commercial models depending on how your operation is structured.