Enhancing Delivery and OTT Workflows with TAG Software
If you’re involved in delivering high-quality video across complex transport and delivery networks or managing the intricacies of OTT distribution, you understand the critical role of real-time signal analysis and multiviewing. You’ve likely explored various options and perhaps encountered TAG software, a leader in 100% software-based integrated IP multiviewing, probing, and monitoring.
But how can switching to TAG software truly transform your operations? How can it empower you to deliver exceptional video experiences, adapt to evolving technologies, and stay ahead in the dynamic media landscape?
Let’s explore the key capabilities of TAG software and how they translate into real-world benefits for both your Delivery and OTT workflows.
Monitor All Workflows in Realtime: Unified Visibility and Control
TAG provides deep monitoring and visualization for every format and workflow, from end to end and in real time. It seamlessly handles:
- Backhaul and remote signal ingest
- Uncompressed facility core signals
- Compressed and encrypted distribution signals
- Broadcast, cable, and satellite delivery
- OTT origin and CDN distribution
By consolidating all monitoring into a single, unified view, TAG simplifies operations, accelerates root cause analysis, and streamlines error recovery. This empowers you to maintain optimal performance across your entire delivery and OTT ecosystem.
Handle All Signal Formats: Comprehensive Monitoring for Diverse Needs
TAG monitors, probes, and provides real-time visualization, notifications, and alarms for all transport and delivery signal types and elements. In addition to handling:
- All uncompressed formats
- Compressed formats
- ABR OTT formats
- Transport protocols including MX, Zixi, and SRT
TAG also supports decryption for both TS and OTT. With deep probing capabilities, TAG measures, alarms, and logs for more than 400 parameters, ensuring you have complete visibility into your signal health.
Monitor All OTT Signals in Realtime: Comprehensive OTT Monitoring
TAG provides the most comprehensive real-time OTT monitoring available, monitoring all signals with deep probing and real-time notifications with full visualization. The solution monitors every point in the OTT delivery supply chain, consolidating visualization for:
- Live sources and origination
- Transcoding and origin servers and transcoders
- Decoding and monitoring of all manifest ladder variants
TAG also handles SCTE ad insertion monitoring and alarming and leverages KMS integration for secure real-time decryption and presentation without STB or DRM integration, allowing for OTT monitoring at scale.
Scale with Efficiency and Quality: Effortless Expansion
TAG’s 100% software-based system and flexible licensing options offer unparalleled scalability. You can easily scale your monitoring capacity to support increasingly complex distribution, growing monitoring needs, and expanding OTT services without compromising quality or performance.
To manage large-scale deployments, TAG includes advanced features like:
- Monitoring by exception (MBE) capabilities, including carousel mode and centralized error display
- Adaptive monitoring to reduce system footprint and cloud costs by up to 80%
- TAG Media Control System (MCS) for simplified system management and data consolidation
Monitor at OTT Scale: Ensuring Optimal Viewer Experiences
TAG enables you to scale your monitoring of the OTT media supply chain from live event sources to the edges of your networks and CDNs, ensuring a perfect consumer experience. The solution provides:
- Configurable notification and threshold sets to match alarms to your required signal parameters
- Profile-based signal template matching to ensure the proper format is delivered to each endpoint
- Monitoring by exception to focus your operators’ attention on solving problems rather than discovering them
Deliver Excellence While Reducing Costs: Optimize Your OTT Monitoring
TAG’s exclusive Adaptive Monitoring reduces infrastructure footprint and costs by 80% compared to traditional monitoring while delivering the same performance. This makes it economical to extend TAG monitoring to the furthest edges of your network and even to limited-audience channels.
TAG’s rich API provides dynamic provisioning, configuration, and orchestration control of TAG monitoring instances, allowing you to run monitoring nodes only when and where they are needed to reduce costs. TAG’s Zer0 Friction® licensing allows monitoring licenses to be applied wherever they’re needed with absolute freedom, minimizing costs and aligning your monitoring costs to the value of your content.
Software-Based, 100% IP-Native, and Cloud-Friendly: Embrace the Future of Delivery & OTT
TAG has been IP and software-based from day one. As an official AWS partner and early adopter of AWS CDI, we’re committed to enabling cloud-based workflows.
By implementing TAG’s software-based, 100% IP-native technology, you gain the flexibility to:
- Embrace IP and cloud workflows at your own pace
- Start on-premises, strategically extend to the cloud, or fully embrace a cloud-based model for limitless scalability
- Simplify cloud migration and transition to IP workflows, including support for remote operations
Fast, Simple Deployment: Minimize Disruption, Maximize Efficiency
Deploying TAG software is remarkably straightforward. It’s truly plug-and-play: insert the dongle, and you’re ready to go. No specialized setup, configuration, or integration is required.
This means you can:
- Deploy TAG on-premises or in any data center without extensive engineering expertise
- Seize new opportunities quickly and launch new services with unprecedented speed
- Get a fully functioning signal analysis and multiviewing system running in hours, accelerating time to market
Reduce the Size of Your Tech Stack: Streamline and Simplify
TAG can provide deep monitoring and visualization for every format and workflow, from end to end and in real time. It accepts practically all types of streams and displays them on a single multiviewer, dramatically reducing the size of your tech stack.
With the recent release of TAG’s Media Control System (MCS), you can further streamline your operations by leveraging integration with powerful open-source tools. This eliminates the limitations of legacy solutions and enables open, IT-based workflows built on less-specialized technology.
Speed of Development: Stay Ahead of the Curve
TAG has a record of adapting with speed in developing, deploying, and managing functionality for forward-looking media companies.
Because TAG software is continually refined to deliver the latest technology, you can meet emerging requirements and standards quickly. You can be confident that your signal analysis and multiviewing solution can handle ultra-low-latency uncompressed, compressed and OTT formats, encryption, and new formats — such as JPEG-XS, CDI, SRT, NDI5, and others — that enable remote and cloud workflows.
Extensive Data Capture and Analysis: Insights for Informed Decisions
TAG provides first-of-a-kind open-source tools for monitoring, probing, aggregating, managing, and analyzing data – all seamlessly integrated into your workflow.
By integrating with popular real-time IT tools and visualization applications, TAG gives you easy access to a wealth of data and the insights you need to make informed decisions.
With TAG, you can:
- Measure and extract accurate metrics from all your signals
- Improve performance, enhance quality of service, and optimize the viewer experience
- Correlate, identify, and recover from errors more effectively
- Optimize workloads for maximum performance and ensure interoperable signal transmission
Should You Change Your Signal Analysis and Multiviewing for Delivery & OTT?
- Monitor all your delivery and OTT workflows in real-time
- Handle all signal formats with ease
- Scale effortlessly to meet growing demands
- See changes instantly and take proactive action
- Embrace software-based, IP-native, and cloud-friendly technology
- Deploy quickly and efficiently
- Stay ahead of the curve with continuous innovation
- Capture and analyze extensive data for informed decision-making
- Partner with a proven and reliable leader
