Sentry
Spectrum Monitoring
TM
A reliable solution
to signal interference
Signal quality and delivery is everything.
Signal interference leads to substandard quality,
poor service and lost revenue.
Early Detection of
Signal Interference
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Solving signal interference has just become easier with
the introduction of the Sentry Spectrum Monitoring
solution from Crystal.
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Crystal’s Sentry allows you to monitor and quickly react to
signal interference before an actual outage occurs.
Sentry provides real-time monitoring and archiving of
spectrum data for each signal anomaly, allowing you to
analyze data before the incident, during the incident and
after the signal is restored.
With Sentry keeping a constant watch on signal quality,
interference events can be resolved quickly avoiding lost
signal and lost revenue.
The Sentry solution has the highest value in the market
today while providing signal interference detection,
analysis and resolution. Only Sentry delivers these key
user benefits:
• High value features – with an affordable price
• Feature rich capability – transforms your old existing
spectrum analyzers into a high-yield QA weapon
• Easy to use – ensures use by even novice operators
• Record on Anomaly – provides evidence for action
• Easy Search – “Leap-To-Anomaly” Feature finds
anomalies quickly
Weather
Rogue carriers
Hijacked transponders
Equipment failure
Carrier monitor
and recorder
applications:
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TV network broadcasting
Network operation centers
Beacon signal monitoring
Data/Internet monitoring
Non-24-hour repeatable carrier monitoring
ENG/microwave monitoring
Cell tower monitoring
Interference diagnostics
Uplink power control
Disaster detection and recovery
Wi-Fi and Wi-Max
Transportable / small footprint
High value features
from low-cost hardware:
Crystal’s Sentry software solution converts an inexpensive spectrum analyzer into a powerful
tool for high-value monitoring. Sentry works with most spectrum analyzers already in use
at your facility; including Agilent®, Anritsu®, Avcom®, Dominion Test Instruments (DTI)®,
Hewlet Packard® , LP Technologies®, Morrow®, and Tektronix ®.
also enables monitor of carriers 24/7 or at user set intervals. Sentry enables a single
spectrum analyzer to be deployed across multiple carriers.
Sentry’s monitors and alarms reduce the personnel cost of monitoring carriers while giving
engineers a clearer view of the operational integrity of their carriers, and Sentry delivers
Cross-Pol visibility by carrier (when applied to spectrum analyzers with multiple inputs).
Easy to Use
Sentry is available as a stand-alone system or as an added
feature to one of the hundreds of Crystal Monitor and Control
systems in place around the world. Stand-alone systems are
placed on a LAN or WAN network and connected via a standard
Ethernet cable. The design allows for standard, 1-rack-unit
mounting and provides a cost-effective way of monitoring your
carriers from anywhere: on your network LAN or remotely (via
a Virtual Private Network). Sentry’s user interface is designed
to deliver a simple and intuitive method for capturing reference
easy to use, daily signal analysis is no longer a tedious chore.
Record on Anomaly
Easy-To-Use Interface
A special feature of Sentry software is its ability to provide
prior to any interference anomaly. The buffer record is often
a key element of analysis to help identify if the interference is
sudden or an indicator of a gradual degradation of your signal.
In addition, the anomaly records provide convincing evidence
to expedite recovery initiatives.
The integrity of your broadcast signal is
the integrity of your business. Crystal’s
Sentry Spectrum Monitoring Solution is
the answer to tracking, analyzing and
diagnosing signal interference.
Easy Search
Sentry’s Open History Player allows your engineers to quickly
Schedule a demonstration today.
also to leap-forward to the next anomaly to study or review
interference incidents.
Call us at 800 432-3424 0r 510 264-0887,
e-mail us at quotes@metrictest.com
or visit us at www.metrictest.com.
No more wading through endless recordings of ‘normal’
traces just to locate that split-second of carrier loss. Sentry’s
Leap-To-Anomaly search feature quickly moves you from one
anomaly to the next while it creates an AVI (video playback)