Telestream reveals latest Inspect 2110 monitoring solution
Telestream has unveiled the latest version of Inspect 2110, its IP video monitoring solution for ST2110 media networks.
Inspect 2110 is designed to ensure reliability within hybrid SDI-over-IP and ST2110 deployments by utilising a ‘monitoring by exception’ approach to proactively notify engineers of any quality issues within facilities and across networks. The latest version features a 180Gbps bandwidth-capable platform and an entirely new way to think about the Inspect 2110 probe.
The solution is now configurable based on bandwidth monitoring needs and offers options that allow it to be easily tailored to specific applications in contribution monitoring, multiple-studio monitoring, and live and production applications for monitoring multiple vehicles from a single location. New features include a high-performance platform, an audio and video remote viewer, automatic detection of frozen and black frames, and compliance measurements for loudness (CALM).
“As live remote production becomes increasingly widespread, and ST2110 multiplies the number of essences we must monitor and diagnose, the Inspect 2110 probe enables a wide array of media essence characteristics to be automatically monitored, with no human intervention required until a problem has been identified,” said Agostino Canepa, product manager, Inspect 2110, Telestream. “Automated, unmanned, 24/7 monitoring of any size ST2110/ST2022-6 network is the best way to maximise the productivity of highly skilled engineering resources because it lets them focus on fixing problems instead of searching for them.”
Within Inspect 2110, users can click on the ‘View in Prism’ button to redirect an anomalous IP stream to a chosen Prism media analysis instrument, where an engineer can see and analyse the problem in depth. These deep dive diagnostics provide one-click access to fine-grained debugging of the video, audio and ancillary streams as well as, crucially, the PTP timing.
“Traditional AV monitoring systems, like multiviewers, focus on humans visually verifiying the correctness and integrity of the content one stream at a time, 24/7,” added Canepa. “Often more than one of these traditional products is needed to monitor the many key signals of a ST2110 network, such as PTP, network QoS, video QoE, and essence correctness. Inspect 2110 offers all of these capabilities in one product. Automated monitoring speeds up issue resolution while simultaneously freeing up technical personnel to work on more critical tasks. You can’t do that with a multiviewer, and when combined with Teletream’s Prism waveform monitors, you can’t do that with anything else.”
Inspect 2110 automatically confirms hundreds of stream parameters against their expected values and only alerts the operator when a notable event/error condition occurs. It then offers the data and tools to quickly troubleshoot the flagged error condition.
Inspect 2110 will also monitor PTP behaviour such as verifying PTP timing signal accuracy, validate that proper video and audio signals are being carried in each stream, confirm that redundant streams are identical and in sync, and identify any stream that is out of compliance with applicable standards.