System Monitoring And Realtime Telemetry Dashboard (smartDASH) is a vendor-agnostic enterprise software suite providing full network and media visibility across all IP, all SDI or hybrid WAN/LAN broadcast infrastructures — a tool essential to the conscious operation of any IP-based broadcast installation. Bridging the gap between IT and Video engineering, smartDASH straddles both sides of the operation to provide comprehensive views of network status and how media streams flowing across it are behaving. Based on UNIX, this zero-footprint networking solution can be deployed on-premises or in a private or public cloud with HTTP accessibility, and incorporates a robust database to document and rapidly search any aspect of the operation, from a simple cable ID number to a multicast stream’s journey across a transnational multi-hop WAN. smartDASH leverages a vast library of hardware communication protocols to automatically interrogate live and dormant path connections to create intuitive, data rich presentation layers of a COTS-hybrid infrastructure. Deep packet inspection microservices support monitoring and decoding a wide range of media formats, from low bitrate OTT/ABR streams to uncompressed ST2110 studio production flows. This unique approach brings a deeper dimension of operational visibility by unifying network telemetry and mixed media flow into a single glass view.
