OVERVIEW
Digital Rapids' Broadcast Manager provides enterprise-level management, control, status monitoring and failure recovery for multiple live streaming encoders. Scalable to hundreds of channels, Broadcast Manager simplifies operations and boosts reliability for IPTV, web streaming and other IP-based video delivery.

Enterprise-level Live Encoding Management for the New Era of Broadcast
IP-based streaming content delivery is redefining broadcast. Bridging the worlds of traditional video and IT networks, your media encoding and streaming platforms are key points along the critical path between you and your viewers. Stream Broadcast Manager provides management and remote control of multiple Digital Rapids StreamZ or StreamZHD live encoding servers, handling node management, scheduling, status updates, failover, maintenance modes and alerts. Whether you have two encoders for fault tolerance of mission-critical applications or two hundred encoders for enterprise-level installations such as IPTV, the scalable Stream Broadcast Manager software bolsters reliability while reducing operational cost and complexity.

Failover and 'Self-Healing' Reinforce Reliability
Maintaining a loyal, engaged audience requires a consistent, reliable viewing experience, The Stream Broadcast Manager software provides automated failover and 'self-healing' recovery to automatically respond to failures in a timely fashion with minimal disruption. Stream Broadcast Manager monitors the encoding and streaming process on all active systems. If a failure is detected, Stream Broadcast Manager automatically transfers operation to a backup system, with minimal interruption to your customers' viewing experience. Stream Broadcast Manager's 'self-healing' functions attempt to resolve problems directly on failed systems - particularly significant when backup encoders are unavailable. Stream Broadcast Manager will attempt to restart the encoding process on the system and, if the node is configured to permit it, remotely reboot the system if necessary.

Centralization Brings Simplicity
Broadcast Manager can centrally schedule, and monitor the streaming process on each encoder and offers individual or group-based node management, significantly simplifying operation. Setup is streamlined through automatic detection of encoders on the network using discovery protocols, enabling seamless scalability and expansion. Encoding and streaming parameters are easily assigned to encoders within the Broadcast Manager software through reusable project files.

Broadcast Manager features flexible scheduling capabilities for easy automation. Encoders can be started, stopped, or taken offline (such as for maintenance or upgrades) at scheduled times, with the flexibility of using a different set of encoding parameters (including different compression formats) for each scheduled task if desired. A graphical scheduling interface provides an at-a-glance visual representation of scheduled tasks and enables easy identification of scheduling gaps and conflicts

Broadcast Manager provides features for both attended and unattended status monitoring. A high-level network overview lets you quickly scan your encoding systems for problems and drill down if any issues arise, while an integrated database keeps track of all activities and events. Broadcast Manager can also alert engineering and operations staff to events such as failures and scheduled task completions through configurable alert notifications. Developers can integrate Broadcast Manager into their own custon applications and exising enterprise management systems through an easy-to-use Web Services API.

	Streamlined management and control of multiple encoders from one or more locations
	Increased reliability of service to viewers with failover and self-healing failure recovery
	Reduced operational overhead and errors through automation and scheduling of tasks
	Easy deployment with automatic node detection through discovery protocols
	Confident unattended operation with alert notification
	Group or individual node management
	Seamlessly scalable to grow with your operations
	Comprehensive Web Services (SOAP) API for custom integration
	Works with StreamZ Live, StreamZ and StreamZHD encoding solutions