Broadcast monitoring and control

Every device in the chain, from camera to transmitter, with the failed hop located and the equipment under your control.

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Mosaic facility overview for a fictional broadcast center: cards for timing, network, flows, control and audio, six facility areas, a list of incidents and the bandwidth of live essence flows — Mosaic facility overview, shown with demo data from a fictional broadcast center. One OB truck is losing packets and one camera clock has drifted.

Keep every channel on air.

A fault on a live channel reaches the audience right away. Your team needs to see where the chain broke, not just that it did.

With every device and link in one view, you can find the failed hop and control the equipment from any location.

Signal.Routing.Timing.

All your facilities, from a single interface.

A broadcast network with more than 50 sites reduced downtime by 95% after moving to unified monitoring.

95%
Downtime reduction: 50+
Broadcast sites: 24/7
Monitoring

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What Mosaic watches in your facility.

Signal paths

One program's chain, hop by hop, with the fault located and the latency broken down.

Production routing

Crosspoints, route detail, route health and salvos.

PTP timing

Grandmasters, timing distribution, device offsets and phase alignment.

The whole facility, from one console.

Real-time monitoring

Monitoring and alerting on every device in the chain, with analytics and performance reporting from your own history database.

Automation engine

Scheduled commands, rules and scripts that respond to alarms, with each command checked before it runs.

Reports and history

Alarm and performance reports in PDF, Word, Excel, CSV or HTML, on demand or on a schedule.

Where it runs.

Television broadcasting

24/7 channels and playout centers
Live news and sports production
Multi-channel broadcasting
Multiviewer walls with alarm borders
Contribution circuits and OB truck links
Content syndication and distribution

Radio broadcasting

Stations on automated schedules
Live show management and control
Multi-station operations from one console
Podcast production and distribution

Mosaic multiviewer wall: a four by four grid of video sources with test patterns, status pips, audio meters and alarm borders on three tiles — **Multiviewer wall.**Sixteen sources with status, audio meters and alarm borders. Three carry alarms: the OB truck, one camera audio feed and one graphics feed. The test patterns are drawings, not video.

Mosaic signal path for a match feed: eight hops from the OB truck to transmission, with the failed WAN hop selected and a latency waterfall for every hop — **Signal path.**One feed, hop by hop. The WAN hop is selected: the blue contribution circuit is down and the red one is dropping packets, with the latency each hop adds below.

Seamless protection: mirrored red and blue path panels with clean-flow charts, a merge diagram showing no packets lost after the merge, and recovered-packet charts — **Seamless protection.**Red and blue paths merge under ST 2022-7. The blue path dipped and recovered, and no packets were lost after the merge.

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PTP timing: two grandmaster time-error dials, thirty-six follower offset gauges against a one microsecond budget, and a drift chart for the one camera just past the limit — **Timing.**Offset from the grandmaster for 36 followers. 35 are inside the one microsecond budget, and one camera has drifted just past it.

Audio and ancillary desk: meters and loudness for eight audio streams, a channel map, a programme loudness chart and chips for captions, timecode, SCTE-104 and AFD — **Audio and ancillary data.**Loudness, true peak and lip sync for eight audio streams, with captions, timecode, SCTE-104 and AFD checked for each program. One player is missing captions.

Production routing matrix: sources and destinations with route health, and a side drawer previewing a saved salvo for an OB arrival — **Routing matrix.**Live routes with their health. The drawer previews a saved salvo, with the changes it would make ringed on the matrix.

Production network map: four spines and twelve leaf switches joined by uplinks sized and colored by load, with the studio areas below — **Production network.**Four spines, twelve leaves and 24 uplinks, with width and color showing load. Two Studio A uplinks are amber at about 74 percent.

OB truck contribution link: a truck connected to master control over six bonded links, with bandwidth, latency and loss for each link and throughput trends — **OB truck link.**A truck feeding master control over six bonded links: fiber, four cellular and a satellite on standby. One cellular link is degraded.

Remote production venue latency: a control room at the center and four venues placed on latency rings against a 25 ms budget, with a latency chart for each venue — **Remote production venues.**Four venues placed by live latency around the control room, against a 25 ms budget. One venue is over budget on its backup path.

Common questions

What does Mosaic monitor in a broadcast facility?

Signal paths hop by hop, production routing including crosspoints and salvos, PTP timing from grandmasters to device offsets, network fabric and the equipment along each chain.

Does it work with equipment from different vendors?

Yes. Mosaic is vendor-neutral, and new device types can be added using its integrated driver editor.

Does it cover radio as well as television?

Yes. It is used in television channels and playout centers, and in radio operations that run several stations.

Case studies and success stories

What one operator built with Mosaic, with screens from the project.

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Remote monitoring and control of 80 Ka and Ku band satellite antennas
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