Stream Monitoring Overview

Streaming over the Internet is booming. The volume and variety of content has expanded faster than the solutions available to manage it. As more people spend more time in front of their computers instead of their televisions, advertisers are scrambling to reach this captive audience.

At the same time, with broadband access becoming standard, expectations for quality have never been higher. Inferior video performance due to network congestion or server overload reflects poorly on the brand being promoted, essentially wasting millions of dollars spent creating the ad. On the flip side, content providers now want to differentiate their services with the ability to provide objective performance monitoring. The convergence of these issues has made Stream Monitoring mission-critical for enterprises, advertising agencies and content providers alike.

Benefits:
	Secures brand image by ensuring quality of video and audio streams
	Provides third-party validation of the quality of your streams
	Eliminates risk of lost revenue resulting from downtime
	Monitors applications from outside your network/firewall to assess performance from an end-user perspective
Features:
	Support for Windows Media, Macromedia Flash in both progressive download and true streaming formats, and audio formats such as mp3, m3u, .wav, and .wma.
	Instant email/pager alerts when there are problems with your stream such as slow buffer times, connection timeouts or poor quality relative to set thresholds.
	Performance reporting graphs connect and buffer times, errors, stream quality, user experience and average throughput-allowing you to quickly and easily determine status and diagnose system problems.
	Intuitive control panel interface allows for easy administration, problem diagnosis and more detailed views.