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MTD Systems Third Generation Satellite Network Monitoring
Today’s Satellite Systems
Many satellite system projects these days involve satellite uplinks with hundreds or perhapsthousands of receivers in the network receiving content from them. Traditionally, if thesenetworks are monitored, the planners rely on SNMP traps for big troubles and plan for round-robin polling and pinging to determine the health of the receivers and other devices. Theapplications include digital cinema distribution, teleconference, distance learning, TV broadcastcontent distribution, digital signage, and the list goes on.Traditionalnetwork monitoringsystems, because of polling speed, within an hour or two NOC personnel can know whether a device has failed or not and whether the receiver was up, on theright channel with adequate signal level, and locked for the transmission. As to the traps, a littlesecret: many of the devices do not support traps and if they do traps can be lost because they aresent as UDP traffic with no assured delivery. Requirements for today’s professional satellitesystems have evolved to the point where NOC personnel need more information and they need itmore quickly. Representatives are teleconference, distance learning, and media distributionsystems.For these new systems the requirements for monitoring have moved out of a strictly maintenanceneed to both a maintenance and operational requirement.
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Satellite basedvideo conferenceand distance learning have an almost interactiveneed for status and data:
 1.Is the receiver is on the right channel?2.Is the feed good? Are error rates low and the signal level high?3.If the signal is low in Milwaukee, what’s the weather like?4.Are all of the correct materials downloaded to the receiver?5.Are keypads and other data entry devices ready?
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Media distribution systems forbroadcast TVanddigital cinemahave many of the same needs and some others:
 1.Is there sufficient space on the device to receive the huge files used in theseoperations?2.What is the progress of the transfer (it takes a long time to transfer multi-gigabytefiles)?3.Did the digital rights management (DRM) keys arrive?
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