Stream Commander™

The Stream Commander intelligent management software for Motorola B-1™ Video Servers minimizes operational costs and maximizes profitability for today's video services.

Stream Commander simplifies video server integration and streamlines system management with a web-based graphical user interface (GUI).

To provide a full view into edge devices and deliver intelligent service management, Stream Commander also offers a full suite of alarms and reports.

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Features

Key Benefits

  • High reliability and redundancy
  • Reduced operational costs
  • Increased revenue streams
  • Faster time-to-market
  • Improved subscriber satisfaction


Full Suite of Reports for Intelligent Resource Planning

  • More than 40 reports presented in the form of bar and pie charts for usage statistics, stream tracking, session setups, alarms, content usage and resource utilization
  • User-configurable trending, historical and CSV/Excel exportable reports for performance assessment and resource allocation planning


Open, Industry-Standard Interfaces

  • Simplified integration with any back-office environment reduces deployment time and cost
  • Web-based GUI allows point-and-click provisioning and management
  • Industry-standard interfaces include SOAP, CORBA, HTML and XML


Server Configuration and Management Ensures Complete System Optimization

  • Tracks and manages Motorola B-1 Video Server and video streaming resources to guarantee the best transmission path is selected for each stream
  • Automatic discovery of video server modules, ports and current configurations
  • Live updates to topology without effecting existing services


Real-time Alarm Monitoring

  • Configurable storage watermark thresholds trigger an alarm when a predefined storage capacity is reached
  • Master control room function provides detailed, real-time alarm conditions and events at the server, module and port levels
  • Dynamic notification of video server events using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)


Proactive Content Management to Optimize Viewing Options

  • Provides a complete listing of ingested Motorola Video Server assets
  • Storage management features enable Near-Term Storage (NTS) content viewing and management
  • Stream and content synchronization between Motorola Video Servers and Stream Commander provides efficient use of critical resources
  • Simplified stream management
  • Supports both active and historical stream views to provide easy access to stream details, including trick-play counts pertaining to each stream
  • Provides a mechanism for manual creation and deletion of streams for administrative purposes


Applications Supported

  • Video on Demand (VOD)
  • Television On Demand (TOD®)
  • On-Demand Ad Insertion (ODAI)
  • Time-Shifted TV (TSTV)
  • Network-based Digital Video Recording (nDVR)
  • IPTV

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