Real-time observability and proactive defense software where network failure and security breaches aren’t an option. Designed for high-stakes environments, NVRT gives you instant visibility into your network’s performance and security integrity.
In media environments where uninterrupted delivery is paramount, NVRT plays a crucial role in ensuring network resiliency. By identifying and prioritizing critical network elements, NVRT fortifies the network against potential failures and disruptions.
A moment of network instability or a hidden security threat can disrupt media workflows, compromise financial transactions, or halt critical operations. Traditional, static discovery methods, such as ping sweeps and basic SNMP polling, are insufficient because they lack functional and security context, making it difficult to understand the specific role of devices within a critical, real-time workflow and their associated risks.
By correlating data from network infrastructure, analyzing control plane protocols (e.g., NMOS), and observing traffic behavior, this method builds a rich, dynamic identity for each component based on its function, identifying it as a specific camera, microphone, or playout server, not just an IP address. This creates a foundational, workflow-aware topology map crucial for intuitive management, rapid, context-sensitive troubleshooting, and identifying potential attack vectors.
The core problem is ensuring the integrity of highly sensitive, application-specific flows, such as uncompressed video and audio streams (e.g., SMPTE ST 2110), while also securing the devices and data. These flows rely on complex protocols, such as PTP for nanosecond-level timing and multicast for efficient, one-to-many distribution, and are often targets for disruption or data exfiltration. Generic tools are insufficient as they cannot identify or monitor these specialized requirements or detect subtle security anomalies.
Track their performance against stringent industry standards, and instantly flag issues like sync loss or high packet jitter. Furthermore, it transforms visibility into proactive defense by risk profiling connected devices, performing real-time intrusion detection, and identifying live traffic patterns to detect threats that others miss.
it is about ensuring the flawless execution of core processes, such as a live broadcast or event, while also protecting against cyber threats. The risk is not slow performance but catastrophic failure, dead air, production outages, loss of control, or significant data breaches. Reactive alerts are insufficient for these high-stakes environments.
By correlating PTP timing, multicast flow data, endpoint performance, and security-related anomalies, it establishes a precise baseline for regular operation, allowing engineers to proactively identify and resolve potential issues, such as path degradation, microbursts, or suspicious activities, before they impact the live production environment.
Gain complete end-to-end visibility across your entire operational environment. See the intricate behavior of media flows, network paths, and infrastructure health in a single, unified view.
Move from reactive fixes to proactive prevention. NVRT’ real-time data analysis detects irregular patterns and emerging issues, allowing you to prevent service degradation before it ever impacts data delivery or the end-user experience.
NVRT is fundamentally vendor-agnostic, seamlessly integrating into any environment, regardless of your mix of network switch vendors and end devices. Eliminate data silos, simplify management, and gain a single source of truth across your entire operational workflow.
Gain complete confidence in your critical PTP timing architecture. NVRT automatically discovers and visualizes your entire clock chain, identifying the Grandmaster and every boundary clock in the path. It continuously monitors for disruptive events like GM changes and tracks boundary clock health in real-time.
Fortify your critical workflows with a multi-layered defense. NVRT discovers all assets via network telemetry, identifies open ports to establish their attack surface, and then characterizes all communication to and from each open port.
Break down operational silos. Share dynamic, real-time dashboards and reports across operations and engineering teams to foster a common understanding, accelerate decision-making, and unify your incident response efforts.
Instantly pinpoint the origin of complex issues. With granular data on packet flows, PTP synchronization, and multicast routing, you can stop searching for the needle in the haystack and resolve problems with speed and precision.
Move beyond device stats to true flow intelligence. NVRT traces your application flows from source to destination, pinpointing path-dependent errors like asynchronous routing in ST 2022-7 environments to ensure complete signal integrity.
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IP-based studios (SMPTE ST 2110), master control rooms, and post-production facilities requiring PTP timing and multicast flow integrity.
Outside broadcast (OB) trucks, remote production (REMI) hubs, and temporary networks for live sports, esports tournaments, concerts, and award shows.
Collaborative, IP-based editing, color grading, and visual effects workflows where data integrity and network performance are critical.
High-stakes enterprise town halls, live-streamed corporate events, and large-scale unified communication environments where AV quality is paramount.
University broadcast studios and distance learning classrooms.
Live-streaming production networks for services and events to a global online audience.
Control systems manage precise synchronization of ride elements and monitor park-wide operations.
High-density IP surveillance systems ensure video quality and data integrity, while real-time data networks connect gaming machines and monitoring systems.
Command & Control systems integrate real-time ISR data, high-fidelity simulation and training networks, and secure video conferencing and tactical data links for military and aerospace applications.
Monitoring multicast market data for latency and integrity while using PTP to ensure precise timestamping for regulatory compliance (e.g., MiFID II).
Real-time monitoring of patient vital signs in ORs and ICUs while ensuring timely, error-free delivery of large PACS, CT, and MRI data files.
SCADA systems and control networks ensure reliable grid stability and power plant monitoring across nuclear, fossil fuel, and renewable facilities.
Real-time control networks support air traffic control, railway signaling, and maritime operations for radar data, train movement, and vessel tracking.
Large-scale data acquisition networks monitor scientific instruments like radio telescopes and particle accelerators while ensuring data integrity in research clusters.
Reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)
for media-related issues by up to 87%
Prevent up to 90% of service-affecting incidents
with proactive anomaly detection
Cut troubleshooting time and engineering
escalations by over 60%
Achieve 100% real-time asset visibility for
operational and security compliance
“NVRT is our source of truth. We recently spent half a day hunting for a PTP sync issue that was causing intermittent audio drops. The moment we moved over to NVRT, it visualized the entire clock chain and immediately flagged a boundary clock with a deteriorating offset. It turned a multi-hour blame game between teams into a quick resolution. It’s an indispensable tool for anyone serious about IP-based workflows.”
— Lead Broadcast Engineer, Tier 1 Sports Network
“Before NVRT, we were always reacting. An on-air issue would happen, and we’d scramble. Now, we’re proactive. Last month, NVRT alerted us to an asymmetric routing path on a critical 2022-7 feed that no other tool could see. We fixed it before it ever impacted a live event. The platform didn’t just reduce our MTTR by over 87%; it has fundamentally improved our service reliability and allowed my team to focus on innovation instead of firefighting.”
— Director of Media Operations, National Broadcaster
“From a security standpoint, NVRT is the foundation of our Operational Defense strategy. You can’t protect what you don’t know you have. NVRT’s ability to discover every asset, map its intended communication paths, and then flag any anomalous behavior is a game-changer. It gives us the source of truth visibility we need to ensure our critical production environment is both stable and secure.”
— Senior Network Engineer, Global Media Services Provider
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.
Vendor management tools are excellent for configuring and checking the health of their own hardware. NVRT operates at a level above that. It’s a vendor-agnostic, end-to-end platform that focuses on the application workflow as it traverses the entire network, across switches from multiple vendors, through virtual environments, and out to the end devices. We trace critical flows like media streams or PTP timing from source to destination, providing context that isolated vendor tools cannot see.
NVRT is deployed as an on-premises platform. We understand that mission-critical operational networks often have stringent security requirements or are air-gapped, making a cloud-only solution impractical. Our on-prem model ensures that all your data and analytics remain securely within your environment, giving you maximum control and performance.
No. The NVRT platform is designed for non-disruptive, passive deployment. It primarily gathers data by analyzing network telemetry. It can be deployed on an “out of band” network or management network. It does not require “in-line” placement with your traffic and necessitates no changes to your existing network configuration or operational workflows to start providing visibility.
Absolutely. Being vendor-agnostic is a core design principle of NVRT. We specialize in providing a single, unified view across complex, multi-vendor ecosystems. Whether your switches are from Arista, Cisco, or another vendor, and your endpoints are from dozens of different manufacturers, NVRT normalizes the data to give you consistent, end-to-end visibility.
The fundamental difference is our data source and our focus. Traditional IT Network Management Systems (NMS) are device-centric. They rely on periodically polling devices for health stats via SNMP or vendor-specific APIs. This approach has critical limitations in an operational environment: it’s slow, it provides a fragmented view, and it lacks workflow context. It can indicate if a switch’s CPU is overloaded, but it cannot assess the performance of a critical media flow as it traverses the network.
NVRT, in contrast, is a flow-centric platform built on rich network telemetry.
Instead of just asking a device how it’s doing every few minutes, we analyze a continuous stream of data directly from the network fabric itself. This telemetry-driven approach provides a high-resolution, end-to-end picture of your entire operation. This is how we provide native intelligence for specialized protocols critical to your workflow, such as PTP for timing and multicast for media distribution, and instantly diagnose complex routing problems, like asynchronous paths in ST 2022-7 environments, which are entirely invisible to device-level SNMP polling.
NVRT is built to serve multiple teams. Engineers and Operators use it daily for proactive monitoring and rapid troubleshooting. Network Architects use it to validate designs and plan capacity. Security and Compliance Teams use it to ensure operational defense and complete asset visibility. By providing a common source of truth, it enhances collaboration across all technical departments.
The NVRT platform is delivered as an application designed to run on a standard Linux operating system. You have the flexibility to install it on your dedicated hardware or virtual machine (e.g., VMware, KVM) using either your own Linux distribution or the Ubuntu OS version supplied by Providius.
For a completely turnkey solution, Providius also offers a hardware appliance, a pre-configured server with the NVRT application installed on our supplied Ubuntu OS and ready for deployment.
Specific CPU, memory, and storage requirements depend on the scale of your network. We provide clear sizing guidelines for your specific environment. For pricing and deployment options, please get in touch with our sales team at sales@providius.com.