Globecast Implements Elecard Boro Monitoring System

2021: Implementation of Elecard Boro

On July 16, 2021, Elecard announced that Globecast, a service provider for the entertainment and media industry, has implemented the Elecard Boro monitoring system in its cloud playback infrastructure.

Elecard Boro server is a 2-part client application: software probes and a server that collects and processes statistics. Boro probes are installed on virtual machines Windows Linux both and on various local workstations. The system is used to monitor 75 channels in SRT, RTP, HLS formats. If necessary, Boro allows you to easily scale the system by deploying additional probes anywhere. infrastructures Individual notification parameters were set for each probe. After the initial tests, Boro began to be used to monitor flows in the cloud and ensure the appropriate quality of service (QoS) at ground endpoints (with different distribution formats).

We knew that in order to implement the project we would need a solution for quality control. Ideal for us was a flexible payment model that would allow you to use a large number of resources during the initial testing of the system and reduce them as you work. The decision from Elecard came up to us on all technical requirements. Boro is a powerful but lightweight software product. The ability to disable the necessary functions and configure the software for each specific situation allows you to save money on its operation, said Chris Pulis, technical director of Globecast Americas.

Elecard engineers helped set up and combine tags - so operators can view statistics consolidated across all points, not on each probe individually. This presentation of data allowed Globecast to localize faults more accurately and quickly and reduce the effects of human factor errors, compared to manually sampling event data locally on a virtual machine.

Thanks to Internet authentication and logging, the user does not need to remember the location of probes, IP addresses and passwords, and he can quickly and painlessly begin monitoring. The system also enables collaboration with partners through remote access to probes and data exchange.