Setting the Standard for Playout Performance and Reliability
If you’re evaluating real-time signal analysis and multiviewing solutions for playout, you’re likely familiar with the options available. But which one truly empowers you to handle complex workflows, adapt to rapid technological change, and optimize your operations?
Let’s explore why leading media companies choose TAG’s native IP, all-software platform for their playout needs. We’ll address key questions that arise when selecting a solution, providing an inside look at TAG’s unique differentiators.
Key Differentiators: How TAG Sets Itself Apart
Handle All Signal Formats: Comprehensive Monitoring for Today's Playout Needs
TAG provides comprehensive monitoring, probing, and real-time visualization for all playout signal types and elements, ensuring you can adapt to new workflows and formats seamlessly.
It handles uncompressed and compressed formats, ABR OTT formats, transport protocols like MX, Zixi, and SRT, and decryption for both TS and OTT.
With deep probing capabilities, TAG measures, alarms, and logs over 400 parameters, providing complete visibility into your signal health.
Sinclair Broadcast Group chose TAG to monitor its emerging networks in AWS, pairing TAG with Imagine Versio Aviator playout. Native SRT support in TAG enables content sharing between availability zones and to the network operations center (NOC), while HLS multiviewer outputs provide executive monitoring and business continuity capabilities.
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, and 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.
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.
Fox initially deployed TAG to monitor its OTT sports channels and expanded its use to encompass its Tempe playout facility, monitoring of broadcast signals, affiliate OTT distribution, and ad insertion monitoring, showcasing the platform’s scalability and adaptability.
Simple Deployment and Ease of Use: Accelerate Time to Market
The TAG platform is designed for intuitive use and rapid deployment.
Launch a fully functional video workflow monitoring solution in hours, not months, without extensive training or support.
Empower your engineers to focus on delivering exceptional content and service, not troubleshooting complex systems.
A major U.S. broadcaster streamlined its operations by replacing over a dozen different monitoring tools with TAG. Engineers now use a single tool for all monitoring, visualizing every point in the signal chain and consistently identifying issues other tools missed.
Pure Software Solution: Adapt and Evolve Without Constraints
- Only a pure software solution offers the adaptability to meet changing requirements and leverage the latest technological advancements.
- The TAG platform empowers you to adapt without new hardware investments, provision workflows anywhere, and scale up or down effortlessly.
- Build media workflows that align with your current business needs and seamlessly adjust to embrace new opportunities.
Innovative, High-Speed Development: Stay Ahead of the Curve
TAG’s commitment to continuous innovation ensures you stay at the forefront of media technology.
We rapidly develop, deploy, and manage new features and capabilities, enabling you to seize emerging opportunities and drive revenue growth.
Benefit from our high-speed development methodology and stay ahead of the competition.
TAG was implemented by the groundbreaking 5G-VIRTUOSA project to monitor streams in both on-premises and cloud-based multi-location configurations. Haci Cengiz, Manager of Strategic and Business Development at 5G-VIRTUOSA partner LOGIC, commented on TAG’s versatility: “We had different sets of requirements for different aspects of the project… and TAG’s multiviewer provided the functionality that we needed.”
Flexible Licensing Options: Agility and Cost Efficiency
TAG’s robust licensing options provide unparalleled flexibility to deploy technology where and when you need it.
Use any license for any purpose, at any time, and in any location.
Maintain a reserve of licenses to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand or special events.
Achieve agility and cost efficiency by aligning your technology investments with your evolving business needs.
Globecast initially deployed TAG in its Los Angeles Media Center and has since expanded globally, leveraging TAG’s agility and versatility. Jonathan Morley, Head of Engineering and Deputy Regional Operations Officer at Globecast, noted: “The key benefit I see in TAG is its agility and versatility. The solution is relatively easy to deploy… and the pricing model gives us optimization over more traditional SDI video walls.”
Dynamic Business Model: Align Costs with Consumption
TAG offers a range of flexible licensing models, including CAPEX and OPEX options, allowing you to choose the approach that best suits your business.
Predictably align your costs with your consumption, ensuring you only pay for what you use.
Deploy and adapt signal analysis and multiviewing across your operations in a way that matches both your budget and technical requirements.
A major U.S. broadcast network started with TAG for OTT sports monitoring and expanded its use to cover broadcast signals, affiliate OTT distribution, and ad insertion monitoring, demonstrating the scalability and adaptability of the platform
Data-Driven Media Operations: Insights for Success
- The TAG platform provides access to unified data from across your operations, empowering you to make informed, data-driven decisions.
- Leverage real-time performance data for analysis, visualization, prediction, forensics, SLA auditing, and more.
- Gain the insights you need to deliver an optimal viewer experience, maximize revenue, and achieve your business goals.
