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Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium to Rely on SolarWinds Orion for Network Monitoring and Management for Its Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Broadcast Coverage
powerful, simple and affordable network management software to
more than 88,000 customers worldwide, today announced that
Broadcast Media Consortium
Orion® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to
support its unprecedented coverage of the
Games (
Faced with the challenge of managing the broadcast, the Consortium, the
official Canadian rights-holder of the 2010 Winter Games, will deploy Orion
NPM within its temporary
Over the 10 days of the games, Orion NPM will allow the team to quickly
detect, diagnose and resolve network performance problems and outages. The
product's built-in NOC views offer instant, visual updates of real-time
status, response time and critical system details, ensuring that the
Consortium's suite of assets will be available to help deliver coverage
across multiple media channels and the Internet, in multiple languages.
The Consortium will also rely on Orion Network Configuration Manager
(NCM) to restore configurations in the event of network equipment
failure.
"
gives us incredible flexibility to monitor and manage our multi-hub network
from a single point," said
Technology Systems. "The 2010 Winter Games broadcast presents new
challenges and increased responsibility for our technical teams. Based on
our experience with Orion over the years, we are confident this product
will provide the network management support that we need to ensure
success."
CTV and SolarWinds Orion
For the past eight years, CTV --
broadcaster within the Consortium -- has used
its IT, Engineering and Video networks which serve more than 5000 employees
across 30+ locations. Initially, CTV selected Orion NPM for its ease of
deployment and daily use. Ultimately, the company came to rely on the
product's intuitive interface and flexibility.
"Our network leverages a SONET backbone supplied by our network provider.
The provisioning and support of that network posed some significant
challenges due to factors like unique configurations and equipment that
provide maximum up-time through multiple layers of redundancy. Orion NPM
has been a valuable asset in helping us to easily monitor and troubleshoot
this network across teams and locations," explained Kozlakowski.
"For example, we used the Universal Device Poller to plot the temperature
trends of a unique video device at a problematic third party site where we
do not have environmental control. Based on the reported trends, we alert
our support group whenever the temperature exceeds acceptable norms. This
allows us to be pro-active about preventing equipment damage and managing
expectations of our end users."
managers a comprehensive and easy to understand view of their network's
health -- from fault and performance, to configuration, application
performance and IP address management. Users can view the real-time
statistics and availability of their network from any Web browser,
providing a convenient way for administrators to stay in tune with their
networks at any time, from any place.
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