smartSCOPE is a media-agnostic, high density 24/7 analysis platform for IP flows in live production and delivery networks, which may be deployed stand-alone, or seamlessly integrated with Lawo smartDASH system monitoring software. IP flows can frequently suffer from packet loss, jitter, encoding impairments and transport violations. Having the right monitoring and visualization technologies to proactively identify such service disruptions is imperative to the success of the operation. smartSCOPE incorporates the essential analysis and decoding processing necessary to alert the operation tiers of service and packet transport related impairments for ST2110/ST2022 production flows, linear MPEG services and over-the-top adaptive bitrate (OTT/ABR) defined streams. Packets are processed for service compliance while analyzing the conditions of the delivery network. This dual focused analysis approach provides a clear demarcation between video delivery and video processing — drastically reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) and eliminating finger pointing between transport and processing departments. Scalable to over 100 services in a single instance, smartDASH supplies a much-needed solution to broadcasters leveraging COTS server architectures, with support for multiple compressed formats (MPEG-2 TS, H.264, HEVC, JXS), audio formats (AES67, PCM, MP1-L1, AAC, HE-AAC, A-52), production formats (ST2022-6/7, ST2110-20/30/40, PTP) and OTT/ABR mobile streaming formats.
