Watch the Webinar: Cut Your IP Troubleshooting Time With NMOS’s BCP-008 Traffic Light System

Find out how to stop the flood of alarms to focus on what’s actually important.

When something stops working in a complex IP environment, the last thing you want to have to do is troubleshoot every piece of equipment – and likely go about 12 menus deep on each – to see what went wrong. 

Instead, if you had a simple dashboard that could show you the status of every device in your entire facility, you could root out the cause of the problem in seconds. With NMOS’s BCP-008 simple traffic light system, you can have exactly that. 

That’s the topic of a recent AMWA webinar: Cut Your IP Troubleshooting Time With NMOS’s BCP-008 Traffic Light System. 

When you watch, you’ll hear from Stefan Ledergerber of Simplexity and Willem Vermost of the EBU as they talked about what NMOS BCP-008 minimum status reporting is and does for you, and then they answered questions from the audience. 

“Everyone still compares IP and SDI, and the most significant difference is before you had one unit you'd talk to, and it would make the connection from X to Y,” Stefan Ledergerber said, putting the central challenge of IP in context. “And now this central unit from one manufacturer has turned into a distributed system, made up of many different manufacturers. So in order to make one signal connection, you have multiple manufacturers who need to be talking to each other, and only if they do, you get your working signal. This is a much more complex task.”

The simple BCP-008 traffic light system goes beyond discovery, registration, and connection management (IS-04 and IS-05) to solve the problem of what happens when you don’t have a working signal, and you need to figure out why quickly. 

Watch the recording to discover:

— How you can stop the flood of alarms to focus on what’s actually important

— Why minimum status reporting makes troubleshooting easier

— How you can have more confidence that everything is working as it should

— What BCP-008 indicates for stream validation, packets, synchronization, and connectivity

— How you can use the simple, open-source traffic light system

After you watch, if you want more information about BCP-008, visit www.amwa.tv/nmos-getting-started. If you’d like to find out about upcoming AMWA events, head to go.amwa.tv/nmos-workshop.