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Plymouth, MN (12/10/2007) Dotcom-Monitor, the leader and innovator inadvanced website monitoring services, announces real-time video stream functionalitymonitoring, a new option for its innovative and indispensable website monitoringservice.
Dotcom-Mo nitor, a leading web site monitoring company, announced a new monitoringservice today that assists corporations in the video streaming market and increasesthe stability and effectiveness of their video content services. This video streammonitoring service directly impacts the video streaming market that was worth anestimated $600 million in 2006 as reported by Research and Markets, a marketresearch group based in Ireland. Most companies that provide video on their websitesrequire their streaming content to be available 24/7 to attract visitors, serveadvertisements, and provide informational or instructional materials. Competing inthe Internet s world market necessitates the highest quality with minimalinterruption of streams. Dotcom-Monitor assists corporations in maintaining an edgeover their competition through Quality of Service (QoS) assurance.
Simple and Comprehensive Media Monitoring
Application of Dotcom-Monitor s services is nearly effortless. Corporationsprovide the URL and specifications of their streaming content, and Dotcom-Monitorconsistently ascertains its performance. Businesses specify the parameters fornotification, such as connection timeout in seconds, acceptable buffering time, andexpected bps (bits per second) rate. This information is entered into asophisticated monitoring system, and then the specified site is monitored from 12strategically located worldwide stations.
Monitoring Streaming Content
Sites that provide numerous pages of streaming content will benefit most from theaddition of real-time video stream functionality to Dotcom-Monitor s servicepackage. The monitoring service is especially beneficial to sites with a tremendousamount of content that is difficult to monitor. Dotcom-Monitor s service, however,can make this task seamless. Dotcom-Monitor keeps track of multiple performancemetrics, such as Connection time, Buffering Time, Received Packages, BufferingPackages, Frame Rate and Average Bytes per Second. By analyzing those metrics onecan determine quality of the service over periods of time and if necessary makeneeded adjustments/
Entire Suite of Services
Video monitoring is just one facet of the complete services package provided byDotcom-Monitor. Its success is a direct result of its comprehensive andsophisticated systems and analytical capabilities. Rather than a typicalconnectivity test, Dotcom-Monitor s services produce an environment of dependablewebsite QoS, which is a critical component for a successful online business.
Even if a site s appearance and performance appear to be acceptable from onebrowser, access may be difficult elsewhere. Dotcom-Monitor uses 12 monitoringstations around the world to ensure that access to a site is not impeded from anylocation.
By subscribing to Dotcom-Monitor s services, corporations can feel confident thattheir online infrastructure is up and running, no matter where the site is accessed.Corporations that are alerted to problems will use their own resources to solveidentified issues, but they will be able to address complications immediately anddirectly. Extensive reporting in real time, using easy-to-understand graphicalcharts that describe performance and variations, will offer a further advantage.
Instant Notification
Dotcom-Monitor s services enable clients to choose not only a preferable means ofnotification but also the appropriate people in the corporation to alert, notifyingthem by telephone, pager, or email when there is any degradation of streamingcontent or any other site issue. Alerts are issued immediately, so that problemsolving can commence as quickly as possible. Dotcom-Monitor acts as an insurancepolicy on the uptime and performance of critical media content, an assurance thatmost companies cannot afford to go without. Any business that relies on the Internetand must validate QoS and Service Level Agreement requirements can do so easily andinexpensively by implementing the tools offered by Dotcom-Monitor.
About Dotcom-Monitor
Dotcom-Monitor is an advanced Website Monitoring service that ensures thereputation and uptime of your e-business by bringing together Monitoring,Reporting, Notification, Escalation and Analysis in the combination best suited toyour needs. You can learn more about website monitoring,network monitoring, and web servermonitoring services at www.dotcom-monitor.com .
