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Should You Change Your Signal Monitoring and Multiviewing for Playout?

Elevating Playout Operations: How TAG Software Delivers Unmatched Performance and Adaptability

If you’re planning a playout project, you’re likely exploring options for real-time signal analysis and multiviewing. You might have already come across TAG software, a leader in 100% software-based integrated IP multiviewing, probing, and monitoring.  

But how can making the switch to TAG software transform your playout operations? How can it empower you to deliver high-quality video consistently, 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 your media organization.

Handle All Signal Formats: Comprehensive Monitoring for Today's Playout Needs

TAG’s comprehensive monitoring capabilities go beyond basic signal analysis. It provides real-time visualization, notifications, and alarms for all playout signal types and elements, including:  

  • Uncompressed and compressed formats
  • ABR OTT formats
  • Transport protocols like MX, Zixi, and SRT
  • Decryption for both TS and OTT

 

With deep probing capabilities, TAG measures, alarms, and logs over 400 parameters, ensuring you have complete visibility into your signal health.

TAG also supports:

  • SCTE 35 and 104 ad insertion monitoring   
  • Audio metering and loudness measurement
  • Monitoring of XDS data, including V-chip content ratings
  • Closed captions and subtitles with on-screen decoding and display

 

With TAG, you can confidently adapt to evolving workflows, new formats, and emerging technologies, ensuring flawless playout across all your channels.

Monitor All Workflows: Unified Visibility and Control

TAG provides deep monitoring and visualization for every format and workflow, from signal ingest to OTT distribution. 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 playout ecosystem.

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 more channels, complex distribution networks, and growing monitoring needs 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   
  • Ad insertion monitoring
  • TAG Media Control System (MCS) for simplified system management and data consolidation

 

With TAG, you can adapt to fluctuations in demand, launch new services with agility, and optimize resource utilization, all while maintaining cost efficiency.

See Changes Anywhere in Realtime: Immediate Visibility, Proactive Action

TAG’s real-time monitoring capabilities empower you to visualize changes in signal integrity and flow as they happen. By combining visual monitoring with detailed metrics, you can:

  • Identify issues instantly
  • Take proactive steps to prevent disruptions
  • Maintain optimal performance across your entire playout system

 

With TAG, you can be confident that your playout operations are running smoothly and efficiently.

Software-Based, 100% IP-Native, and Cloud-Friendly: Embrace the Future of Playout

TAG has been at the forefront of IP and software-based innovation since its inception. 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

 

TAG empowers you to build a future-ready playout infrastructure that aligns with your unique business needs.

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   

 

TAG removes the barriers to implementation, enabling you to focus on what matters most – delivering exceptional content.

Speed of Development: Stay Ahead of the Curve

TAG has a proven track record of rapid development and adaptation. We continually refine our software to deliver the latest technology, ensuring you can meet emerging requirements and standards with confidence.

With TAG, you can:

  • Handle ultra-low-latency uncompressed, compressed, and OTT formats
  • Support the latest encryption schemes and emerging formats like JPEG-XS, CDI, SRT, and NDI5
  • Simplify integration with rich, open API-based capabilities

 

TAG keeps you at the forefront of media technology, empowering you to embrace new opportunities and deliver cutting-edge experiences.

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

 

TAG empowers you to harness the power of data to drive your media workflows and achieve your business goals.

Proven Reliability and Success: A Partner You Can Trust

TAG has achieved significant milestones, with over 100,000 monitoring points deployed globally. Media organizations increasingly choose TAG for its ability to work with all workflows and support emerging protocols rapidly.

By partnering with TAG, you can:

  • Reduce risk and stay ahead of the technological curve
  • Maintain your competitive edge with access to the latest advances and solution updates
  • Benefit from our high-speed innovation and commitment to delivering the tools and capabilities you need

 

TAG is a reliable partner invested in your long-term success.

Should You Change Your Signal Analysis and Multiviewing for Playout?
  • Handle all signal formats with ease
  • Monitor all your playout workflows in real-time
  • 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