Getting Started with Concurrency Monitoring getting-started-overview

Welcome to Concurrency Monitoring! This guide will help you understand the fundamentals and get your integration up and running quickly.

The Problem Concurrency Monitoring Solves problem-solved

In today’s streaming landscape, subscribers expect to access content across multiple devices and applications. However, this creates challenges for content providers:

  • Content licensing agreements often limit the number of simultaneous streams
  • Bandwidth costs increase with excessive concurrent usage
  • User experience suffers when too many streams degrade performance
  • Revenue protection requires preventing account sharing abuse

Concurrency Monitoring provides a centralized solution to these challenges.

How Concurrency Monitoring Works

Core Functionality

Concurrency Monitoring operates as a session management service that:

  1. Tracks active streaming sessions in real-time across all your applications
  2. Evaluates business policies against current usage patterns
  3. Enforces limits when policies are violated
  4. Provides resolution options when conflicts occur

Benefits for Different Stakeholders

Content Providers (Programmers)

  • Protect content rights and comply with licensing agreements
  • Optimize bandwidth costs by preventing excessive usage
  • Improve user experience with clear feedback on limits
  • Gain usage insights through detailed reporting

Identity Providers (MVPDs)

  • Enforce subscriber agreements across all content partners
  • Centralized policy management for multiple applications
  • Real-time monitoring of usage patterns
  • Scalable architecture handling millions of sessions

End Users

  • Clear understanding of their usage limits
  • Consistent experience across all applications
  • Options to resolve conflicts when limits are reached
  • Transparent feedback on why access is restricted

Quick Start Path quick-start-path

  1. Review key concepts - Learn about sessions, policies, and metadata
  2. Choose your strategy - Review LIFO vs FIFO strategies
  3. Start implementing - Follow the API Reference

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Service Registration service-registration

To get started with Concurrency Monitoring, contact our Support Team with the following information:

  1. Company name and contact details

  2. Applications you want to integrate with Concurrency Monitoring. For each application, please provide:

    1. Application name
    2. Application platform(s)
  3. Integration partner (in case you are subscribing to Concurrency Monitoring on the request of another party, programmer or MVPD)

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