The transition to IP media creates powerful new possibilities, but it also introduces a critical visibility gap. How can you ensure the quality and integrity of your streams as they traverse the network?
The Providius BMG is a software-defined IP media analysis platform engineered to provide that certainty. Deployed on your choice of bare-metal or virtualized infrastructure, BMG acts as a powerful, distributed analyzer. It captures and analyzes media packets in real-time, giving you unparalleled insight into the health and performance of your workflows, wherever you need it most.
Deploy on your terms. Install BMG on standard bare-metal servers or as a VM for ultimate flexibility and cost-effective scalability.
Go beyond the wrapper to verify the integrity of your content streams, with real-time analysis of video, audio, and ancillary data streams.
Visualize and validate your entire timing architecture, continuously monitoring PTP health and accuracy to help prevent synchronization-related faults.
Gain full confidence in your standards-based workflows with native support for the entire ST 2110 suite and NMOS discovery/control protocols.
Ensure your stream protection is flawless by analyzing the timing and integrity of both paths in a redundant ST 2022-7 environment.
Capture and analyze every relevant packet without compromise, powered by a high-performance software engine optimized for modern network speeds.
Stream rich telemetry from every BMG instance to a centralized platform – SuperBMG or NVRT for a holistic, end-to-end view of your media network.
Gain full confidence in your standards-based workflows with native support for the entire ST 2110 suite and NMOS discovery/control protocols.
BMG provides critical visibility for any organization that produces, processes, or distributes high-value media over IP networks.
Deploy BMG instances at critical hand-off points, from contribution to distribution, to ensure end-to-end signal quality and rapidly diagnose faults.
Spin up virtual BMG probes on-demand to monitor specific feeds during high-profile live events, ensuring flawless execution.
Monitor the quality and reliability of AV-over-IP streams for critical corporate events, unified communications, and digital signage.
Validate the integrity of high-bandwidth uncompressed media streams in collaborative, IP-based editing and finishing workflows.
Deploy BMG within cloud environments (VPCs) or at remote production sites to provide consistent quality monitoring across a distributed infrastructure.
Reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)
for media-related issues by up to 87%
Prevent service-affecting incidents
with proactive, deep-packet analysis
Scale your monitoring capabilities on-demand
without purchasing proprietary hardware
Our solutions deliver comprehensive, real-time visibility into network traffic, system health, and application workflows, enabling precise fault detection and rapid issue resolution before they impact operations.
With end-to-end observability and actionable insights, Providius empowers your team to maintain peak performance, ensure stability, and meet even the most demanding operational requirements.
BMG provides critical visibility for any organization that produces, processes, or distributes high-value media over IP networks.
BMG offers complete deployment flexibility. It is a Linux-based software application that can be installed on-premises on your choice of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) server (bare-metal) or as a virtual machine (VM) in environments like VMware or KVM. For cloud-based workflows, BMG is available as a pre-configured AMI for AWS and can be readily deployed in any virtual private cloud, giving you consistent analysis capabilities whether your media is on the ground or in the cloud.
No.
BMG operates passively and is completely non-disruptive. It analyzes a copy of your media traffic, which is typically multicast or, in cases of unicast traffic, can be provided by a SPAN or mirror port on your network switches. This ensures it can never impact your on-air signal path.
BMG provides flexible, multi-platform notifications to ensure alerts reach you instantly. You can configure it to send traditional SNMP traps to network management systems, forward events to a Syslog server, send detailed email alerts, or use modern webhooks to post notifications directly to collaboration platforms like Slack.
Yes. While BMG integrates seamlessly to provide telemetry to the Providius NVRT observability platform, it can also stream its rich data via standard APIs to other third-party dashboards and control systems.
BMG is built for technical staff who are responsible for the quality and reliability of media workflows, including broadcast engineers, media network architects, and operations personnel.no changes to your existing network configuration or operational workflows to start providing visibility.
BMG is an efficient, headless software application designed to run on a standard Linux operating system. It can be installed on your commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware or as a virtual machine. Because BMG does not need to decode or render video, its resource requirements are significantly lower than traditional multiviewer-based monitoring tools. Specific CPU, memory, and network interface requirements depend on the number and bitrate of the streams you wish to analyze. We provide clear sizing guidelines to help you provision the appropriate resources for your specific environment.
