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TAG Video Systems is the world leader in 100% software based integrated IP multiviewing, probing and monitoring solutions. Introducing its first IP solution in 2008, today TAG supports over 100,000 probing/monitoring points across the four primary broadcasting applications — live production, playout/master control, distribution and OTT. TAG’s Zer0 Friction philosophy allows broadcasters and content distributors to minimise complexity and manage pace of change, while competitively enabling business operations. The 100% software platform supports both compressed and uncompressed formats, including MPEG TS, JPEG- XS, CDI, NDI, JPEG2000, SMPTE 2110, SMPTE 2022-6/7, MPEG-DASH and HLS. TAG’s solutions run on standard Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and cloud, providing state-of-the-art IP monitoring and analysis tools combined with the highest quality UHD multiviewer available on standard and mobile device displays.

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Live production Multiviewer
TAG’s platform is a unique all IP software-based solution which is optimised for production applications and environments. It decodes, analyses and displays with ultra-low latency uncompressed SMPTE ST 2022-6/7, ST 2110, JPEG-XS, and CDI over IP signals and features UHD mosaic output for multiviewer displays.
• OTT Monitoring
The TAG platform supports all formats of OTT including HLS and MPEG-DASH, providing a complete monitoring and multiviewing solution. It combines the traditional MPEG-TS support with the unique monitoring requirements of OTT (including the ability to decrypt and decode content in the secure zone), and the full feature set of the platform to provide a comprehensive OTT monitoring and multiviewing solution. Unique features like TAG’s adaptive monitoring enable true monitoring at scale across the entire OTT platform
• Playout Monitoring and Multiviewer
The platform incorporates support for multiple encoding formats such as SD, HD, UHD, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, HEVC, J2K, JPEG-XS, etc. to provide a comprehensive monitoring solution for compressed content, as well as ST 2022-6/2110 uncompressed sources, all in one device. The large scope of TAG’s capabilities has made it the default solution for playout monitoring in the cloud.
• Transport and Delivery Monitoring
The TAG platform with its comprehensive support and deep probing capabilities of DVB, ATSC, satellite and IP network transport streams provide complete monitoring and multiviewing solution for transport and delivery applications. It combines a full feature set of MPEG-TS analysis – including the DVB tables, ETR-101-290 specifications, metadata, subtitles and closed captions, content decryption, and video/audio baseband monitoring, all with probing, alarming and multiviewing.
• Monitoring in the Cloud
With TAG, you can migrate faster, launch sooner, and monitor your entire linear video enterprise in the cloud realtime with unrivalled performance and efficiency. It’s why leading media companies around the globe that depend on TAG understand that their success depends on delivering quality to the consumer. The TAG solution powered by TAG’s Zer0 Friction license agility and pricing models, enabling distributed and hybrid operations, costs that align with consumption and the freedom to use TAG anywhere, with any signals and workflow to meet constantly changing business requirements, makes TAG the most affordable, most capable, and most advanced monitoring system available today.

Key projects

5G Virtuosa
TAG’s monitoring and multiviewer platform used in the ground-breaking 5G-Virtuosa project. TAG’s MCM-9000 was brought in initially to keep tabs on streams in an on-premises system and was subsequently augmented with a cloud-based multi-location configuration in a later phase of the project.
For more details, visit, https://www.tagvs.com/news/tags-monitoring-and-multiviewer-platform-used-in-ground-breaking-5g-virtuosa-project/
NBC Olympics
NBC Olympics, a division of NBC Sports Group, chose TAG Video Systems to provide OTT monitoring and multiviewing for its production of the Tokyo Olympic Games which took place in 2021. “When it comes to monitoring TS over IP, TAG is the choice to give us the complete package,” says Chris Connolly, VP of Transmission Engineering and Operations. “With the ability to monitor all of our feeds in the IP domain both visually and through metrics, TAG gives us the confidence to know we have the entire workflow covered.”
For more details, visit https://www.tagvs.com/news/nbc-olympics-selects-ott-monitoring-provider-for-its-production-of-olympic-games-in-tokyo/