The video networking company, BigBand Networks (News - Alert), announced that they have implemented their Remote Monitoring Service (RMS) suite on Switched Digital Video (SDV) systems, in order to provide cable operators with proactive monitoring and comprehensive real-time reporting of the health of the network.

 

The BigBand RMS suite is available to any BigBand switched digital video (SDV) customer and provides insights into the health of their BigBand switched digital video (SDV) systems. It has been implemented in over 25 switched digital video network locations in North America.

 

BigBand’s SDV (Switched Digital Video) provides cable operators with savings in bandwidth consumption, thereby increasing their revenues via expanded program offerings. The SDV as well delivers personalized, high-margin services and transmits programs to subscriber service groups only when subscribers in a service group request to view them, instead of broadcasting all programs to all subscribers all the time.

 

BigBand RMS suite that features Proactive and Preventive Monitoring allows continuous network monitoring that is designed to predict and prevent problematic issues and thereby providing a high-quality subscriber experience at low operational costs.

 

BigBand RMS suite also offers comprehensive reporting that includes weekly summarized reports of BigBand network devices; round-the-clock alarm notifications with real-time alarm reporting; inventory management facility with dashboard view; filtered alarm notifications and warnings at all BigBand network devices.

 

BigBand RMS suite offers both isolation and resolution in situations of problems. During such situations, the system detects and isolates the problem thereby increasing the system uptime and as well as protecting network availability.

 

BigBand Networks is a video networking company that offers broadband service providers with innovative network solutions based on a company’s video-networking platforms, which are specially designed to make video easier to move, manage and monetize video.

 

BigBand's video-networking platforms deliver a wide range of efficient and reliable services that include digital TV, high-definition TV, advanced advertising, video-on-demand and interactive TV.