Broadcast network application systems present many unique challenges, which typically are not found in traditional standards-based (SNMP) Internet or telephony applications. These systems have high bandwidth requirements (5 to 20 MBPS per channel) and necessitate reliable and guaranteed delivery, as some transmissions can be worth tens of millions of dollars per hour. Another difference is that broadcast is frequently a point to-multipoint configuration, and management interfaces to devices are seldom standards-based. To further complicate these systems, application can involve the insertion of local advertising content with accuracy to the frame level milliseconds). Management of broadcast network application systems can include elaborate back-up routines, local redundancy; scheduling of content transmission; allocation of bandwidth; management and scheduling of equipment such as video tape players; and management of audio/video routers, satellite communications equipment, fiber networks, satellite carriers, power levels and ATM switches. Newpoint Technologies provides products and solutions that meet many of these complex requirements and works with selected partners in all facets of these applications.