MCS Overview

TAG’s Media Control System (MCS) is the latest addition to the TAG portfolio of probing, monitoring, and visualization tools. MCS enables virtually infinite scale across any deployment scenario and puts big data into your hands, enabling tight integration of your media monitoring with Open Source software, DevOps tools, and AI / ML to achieve the deep insight and knowledge about the performance of your media business.

With MCS providing a centrally-controlled and managed architecture, all aspects of system operation are in one place for easy user interaction and third-party integration, and robust system resiliency is enabled. The full power of TAGs probing, and monitoring are unleashed by the rich feature set of the MCS, which brings the system to a new level of capability in functionality and opportunity for rich application customization.

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Infinite Scale

With MCS, monitoring systems of any size can be built without limitations on format, geography, or deployment topology.

Centralized API and User Interface

The MCS uses the famous TAG JSON API 5 to control all aspects of system operation, simplifying integration. The API also supports a powerful web-based User Interface for the configuration and management of the entire system.

New Penalty Box Capabilities

The powerful TAG Penalty Box visualization capability has been enhanced under MCS, enabling a fully flexible configuration of penalty boxes, including any independent penalty mosaics and including Penalty Boxes in any layout.

Resource-Optimizing Adaptive Monitoring

Using MCS and TAGs Adaptive Monitoring, system resource utilization can be reduced by as much as 80% without a reduction in monitoring coverage or depth.

Big Data Aggregation

Utilizing the MCS’ rich data capabilities, logs, statistics, and real-time data from all MCM instances and channels are aggregated at the MCS in an Elastic Search database for user access. This data is available for immediate or retrospective use with IT visualization tools and AI / ML applications.

Resilient Operation

As the key element in the system, MCS can be deployed with full redundancy to guarantee availability and resilient operations of the MCS services.

End-to-end Path Awareness

With complete visibility of all sources in a system, the MCS can correlate complete end-to-end monitoring of any program chain or distribution. Multiple endpoint formats for OTT applications, including decryption, are fully supported.

Complete System Management

Under MCS control, individual MCM instances are fully monitored for operational health and can be administered directly by the MCS for robustness, fault tolerance, and maximized availability.