Revma is RCS’s streaming content delivery network solution for stations looking to stream their content, allowing programmers to customize their experience with agnostic encoders, review advanced analytics from their fingertips and more. In addition to relays for various bit rates, Revma features multiple redundancy solutions, including backup and failover streams that can be triggered via heartbeat connection or silence detection. As Revma continues to evolve, we discussed some of these new features, like the silence failover and user roles.
As a refresher, we took a brief tour around the Revma portal. Either from the global or station specific perspective, Revma’s dashboard includes an international map of current listeners and a Monitoring page to view the current status of all your online streams. Regarding redundancy, Revma includes multiple redundancy solutions. First, there’s the everyday failover stream, which is included in your Revma contract. Each station is entitled to a main stream and a failover stream. This way, engineers can configure a high-end primary encoder, alongside a potential free encoder on another machine, so that when Revma’s heartbeat monitor loses a connection with the main encoder, Revma will automatically switch to the backup stream. Brand new in 2024, Revma now features silence detection. In addition to monitoring the primary encoder, Revma can now flip to a secondary source if it detects silence. Although enabled by default, administrators also have the ability to disable the silence detection with a quick email to Revma support. Otherwise, Revma includes failover settings that will return to the primary stream, either Always persistent or Switch to primary after X number of minutes. Since we’re operating in the streaming world, the focus is on the listener’s session and ways to keep that listener connected and continue to stream when there’s an issue between the primary encoder and Revma.
Next, we discussed the brand new user roles, including Administrators, Tech Admins and Analytic Viewers. Simply put, Administrators will continue to have full Revma access, whereas Tech Admins are users who need access to some of the Revma configuration settings, but not Analytics. Whereas Analytic Viewers are everyday programmers who need to view their analytics, but administrators don’t want them to have the ability to edit and potentially compromise any of the Revma streaming settings. Administrators can add and edit user roles via the Setting | People subtab.
Finally, we highlighted Revma’s evolving Knowledge Base. Users can find tips and tricks from the dropdown menu next to the user dropdown menu on the top right of the Revma dashboard. Click on the Knowledge Base to open a new searchable window that will allow users to review multiple configurations, workflows and more. For example, open the Knowledge Base and search for Users to read up on each new user role and their corresponding access.
Aside from Revma’s reliability, 24/7 support, advanced analytics and more, Revma offers multiple levels of redundancy. Engineers can setup a backup plan ranging from your primary streaming encoders to your failover stream. In case you lose a heartbeat connection to the primary encoder, Revma will automatically flip to the failover stream, just as it would if it detects silence over a period of time. Combined with its new user roles and hierarchy, Revma is an affordable and complete online professional streaming solution.
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