NEP Group, the leading media services provider for live sports and entertainment worldwide, today announced the availability of TAG Video Systems’ software-based multiviewing, monitoring and QC capabilities through NEP Platform, further expanding its ecosystem of trusted software applications for media production.
With this latest integration, global media companies can easily deploy TAG alongside complementary software applications through NEP Platform’s single, secure interface, bringing multiviewing, real-time monitoring and quality control into broader production workflows. TAG Core, the software behind TAG Video Systems’ technology, lets production teams view all of their media formats side by side, monitor them in depth in real time, and analyze signal quality with built-in QC tools.
NEP Platform is built around an open approach to software orchestration, running applications from multiple technology providers on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. This gives customers the flexibility to run different production applications on common infrastructure, deploying and scaling capabilities up or down as production requirements change.
That flexibility is paired with NEP’s real-world engineering and operational expertise. NEP teams test and validate software and updates before they are deployed into production environments and provide global service and support, managing the technical complexity behind software-defined production so customers can keep workflows simple for their production teams.
“Customers want the freedom to choose the best technology and capabilities for each production, without adding complexity for the teams using them,” said Dan Murphy, Vice President of NEP Platform. “Adding TAG Video Systems to the platform gives our customers a single application for multiviewing, monitoring and QC across their media formats, while expanding their choice in how they build workflows.
“Our role at NEP is to handle the complexity behind that choice—testing and validating the software, managing the underlying environment and supporting it globally. That combination of an open ecosystem and NEP’s real-world engineering and operational expertise allows production teams to stay focused on what matters most: creating great content for their audiences.”
Michael Demb, VP Product Strategy at TAG Video Systems, said: “We’re excited to bring TAG’s technology to NEP Platform and become part of its growing software ecosystem. TAG and NEP share a common view of where the industry is headed: toward open, software-defined environments that give customers more freedom to choose the technologies and capabilities that work best for them. By bringing TAG to NEP Platform, production teams get multiviewing for all their media formats side by side, in-depth real-time monitoring, and QC analysis in one place, so they can verify what they put on air with confidence.”
This year, NEP Platform has been deployed on major live productions around the world, beginning in Milan in February and expanding across North America throughout the summer. It is now supporting ongoing football productions through NEP Europe’s newest outside broadcast unit, EU-01.
Building on NEP’s four decades of customer-driven innovation, NEP Platform strengthens the company’s ability to deliver flexible, scalable solutions across its global media services portfolio. From content capture to distribution, NEP combines software orchestration with industry-leading mobile units, specialty capture solutions, rental equipment, studios, production hubs, connectivity, and full creative and production services—delivering integrated solutions tailored to the requirements of each production.
